Yes, it happened.
This seems like something bigger and much more fearsome (tried to spell it as 'fiercsom') than Twitter or (epic fail!) Blogger. It took me two years to figure Twitter out, follow interesting humans (still working on gaining more!) and have some kind of a social life that, at the very least, is a beta version of the 'I scorn society and, if not in looks, in spirit shall ever be a Goth chick' life that I enforced upon a very reluctant 'Other'. I suppose I felt i 'owed' it to myself. To use the internet to understand the complex nature of popularity and trends while reading people whose inside joke and satire I took literally? Oh, what a recipe for disaster!
Quora is another side-project that I undertook, perhaps because it is so much prettier than Reddit. How do people tolerate the 'stupidity on demand' nature of all this? I am told that Reddit is all about rules and 'reddiquette' (did I spell that right? Sidebar: It's not a typo if you don't know how to spell a word!) but how does one navigate the maze of unwanted information presented like the Classifieds page of a newspaper? As a relative internet 'newbie', do i belong to a generation of internet stupids that needs a fancy interface to be able to access information?
And there it is, the heart of this rant that I can proudly post on this space that is 'mine own island' (sidebar: would love to know the German word for this sentence). What does a late entry into the world of the internet mean for me? Bypassing the web, I was 'born' into social media. My internet experience began with Google, yes, but that part of my life is too brief and too vague to matter. Like the number of years I was in this world in the 20th century, compared to the number of years I spent in the 21th.
Just found a subreddit for Xena: Warrior Princess (What an epic series!). Wish I had seen this when I was watching Xena last June, not now!
I see that Reddit for me (for now at least) is a passive experience, apart from pushing buttons that make other people's posts/comments/whatever more/less interesting. While a dear friend of mine claims that 'all question are answered on Reddit, even those you didn't know to ask', I fear my problem is- I don't know HOW to ask or search.
Meanwhile, Facebook's follow/befriend distinction is working wonders. I follow friends whose posts interest me and am staunchly ignored by those who are disinterested in what I have to say. A clean Timeline is as important as a clean bowel.
