Itās been awhile š.
Recently, Life Things have been coalescing in a way that has me itching to write on here again. Iāll talk about the one special Thing that tipped the scales a little later. But for now, I think we can all agree social media is what it is, and itās not getting any better. Not that I completely hate it. Itās a place to meet and interact with cool-cat people from all over the world, people Iād normally never get a chance to meet and interact with, so thereās a Yay!
But when you kick up the rock that is FB/Insta youāll find the wretching-ly gross Zuckerberg and his lot. Twitter is ad after ad after ad and there was the Musk-Near-Miss incident that gave me a case of the vapors. Oh, and if you know whatās good for you, you wonāt get me started on what I think about TikTok.
Iām exhausted by it all*.
Exhausted by the constant feeling I need to keep up, all the time, everywhere, all at once. Exhausted by the worry I might miss some important friend or family memberās Big News. Exhausted by having to scroll or hide the infinite stream of Reels/Shorts/Clips/MindNumbingWhereDidTheLastHourGo?15-SecondVideos. And they also have all the pretty numbers to tell you how many times your post has been seen/interacted with/impressions/engagements/ā¦effing hell, already. Itās kind of like if you were trying to figure out a way to drive millions upon millions of people insane all at once, this would be it.
Andrew Lewis is attributed as saying, āIf youāre not paying for it, youāre not the customer; youāre the product being sold.ā
I donāt pay for any of those platforms. They could disappear in an instant** and there wouldnāt be anything any of us could do about it. Well, until the next Cerberus-like āserviceā pops back up and Iām signing up and clicking the Accept Terms and Conditions without reading.
I do pay for my domain name and this here site, however. People can visit if they like. Leave if they like. Itās all cool. Most importantly, though, itās going to be a slow, quirky life here with photos and updates and perhaps a thought or two about books, movies, food, writing, life in Japan, bell crickets***. So please come back if youād like. That would be nifty keen.
Hereās a thing. Iāve been dipping the proverbial toes into the ai art-generators and thatās a hoot. I asked Dall-E to give a visual representation of my return to the blogging world. Here are couple hilarious results:
Bologo!
Boloog!
And my personal favorite, Go Bogl!
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Iāve loads of Mini Posts to share. I hope you stick around. āŖ(ą¹į“ā”į“ą¹)āŖ
XO,
terrie
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Note: My absolute favorite places to hang with people these days are with my amazing Patrons on Patreon and those above mentioned cool-cats on my Discord**** server. But since Patreon isnāt really a blogging site so much (a bit clunky actually) and Discord is so incredibly not conducive for having and following conversations (everything just gets buried), Iām going to just start talking into the void here, tossing out tidbits of loveliness hopefully, some weird, a little silly and please feel free to chime in in the comments. Iāll write back.
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* That said, Iāll still be there doing my one post (or fewer a day). I love the people, not the soulless platform that has us all by the ⦠throat.
** although with the money theyāre making, you can bet that wonāt be happening any time soon.
*** I finally bought some Japanese suzumushi/bell crickets and thereās a real cricket love story to go along.
**** Let me know if you want a Discord invite. Sound/Tech Guru, Richard, is in charge of all that.
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