i caught myself reading my old multiply blogs... Ive written my fair share of blogs havent I? after almost two hours and I'm still not done... ill stop, for now at least.
I must've been pretty inspired to have written all of those... Theres always an event that triggers these creative splurges, No event seems to do that to me as of late... well, reading my past blogs has, but that doesnt really count as a real life event...
I liked the way i write (or should i say "wrote"?) before, its like im so clever yet taglishly jologs with a tinge of emo-ness... and my happy blogs were really happy, yeah, there were events that really made me that happy.
Why dont i write that way anymore? maybe is because of the reasons why i post the blogs in the first place. People usualy have private journals yet i post my blogs online on multiply... So deep inside, i wrote not only because i was inspired by some event but because i wanted attention. Every little blog was some kind of sick comment farm, and i really loved it when i knew people actually read and reacted to my posts... it made me feel like my opinions were of some value to them, value to the point that they'd go out of their way to finish reading my blogs and post a reply. I really liked that, it made me feel good aobut myself even if the blog was emo(ish).
The same goes for all my other posts especially my photo albums! i'd always make an effort to cleverly caption every picture so that people wouldnt just comment on the picture but the caption as well. I took pictures of everything just so i'd have material to post on multiply...
But then came along facebook
and well... people are more active there now i guess... and multiply cant keep up
and thats just sad... so many memories here on multiply and now they're gathering dust. Quite a few of my contacts still multiply and post pics and stuff... comments on my posts (be it an album or a blog) became less and less... I actually post my pics on both facebook and multiply, the exact same albums... haha
My facebook album get like... 50 comments while the multiply version just got one... that should be the same right? a comment is a comment? for some reason... it doesnt feel the same... posting on facebook and receiveing those comments doesnt make me feel good. when you post on facebook and tag people in photos, people click on the link to check it out. But its like the album isnt mine, its like some public gallery where they comment and comment like they dont know who posted it in the first place. It isnt like multiply where people visit my "unique looking profile" (cause of the themes) and post comments in a manner that kind of refer or address me, a manner that makes me feel noticed. Its just isnt like that on facebook... Or maybe it is but i just dont get the same feeling...
maybe if facebook had a blog feature i'd get into it, itd be be more personal and more "me" but... i dunno, its becoming harder and harder for me to stay on multiply... People more actively facebook now, and where more people are at, thats where more people will go.
Its just not the same
i feel like ive grown up with multiply. My college life is chronicled here and if you took the time to go through my first posts all the way up to now, you could see how ive grown and the joys and hardships that i have passed. Thats never gonna be on facebook...
its like ending a chapter... as highschool was to friendster i guess college is to multiply... but college isnt over yet!!!! and facebooooookkkkk :| i must admit, the apps are fun and all but... thats all it is, fun...
My Multiply = Me... my facebook isnt me yet...i dunno, id really hate to abandon multiply for facebook but its like posting here is becoming more and more futile...
Its kinda ironic though that you can kinda sync multiply to facebook but not the other way around. Its like a "backwards compatibility" kind of thing... and facebook is the one thats coming out as the new more advanced way of social networking... And it probably is...
haha, i dunno... how am i suppose to feel about this? ve lost track as to where this blogh is going and whats the point im suppose to be making haha
plant a comment in my comment farm :)
im going to copy this to facebook, just to see how it turns out there
