Time is a flat circle
Oct. 28th, 2022 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrbuttsticksIt is 1999, I make my first Livejournal. I have a lot of fun making stupid little posts about whatever my brain has to say. People enjoy them, I amass a small following. I eventually realize it's a lot of work and go semi-dormant. I start hearing about the newest coolest thing, facebook.
It is 2002, I make my first facebook account. I use it to post a bunch of dumb bullshit and also talk to some of my family that's further away from me. People enjoy it, I amass a small following. I eventually decide I don't like fb anymore, as it has ceased to be a way to see my friends and has become a nonstop ad scroll. I go semi-dormant. I start hearing about the newest coolest thing, twitter.
It is 2005, I make my first twitter account. I start having fun doing little stupid posts about whatever my brain has found today. People enjoy them. I amass a small following with a few people from my fb and lj following and also some new other people. I eventually realize that even though it's less work overall I am still doing a lot of work to make little jokes. I go semi-dormant. I start hearing about something else that's cool, but not newer, just different: reddit.
It is 2008, I make my reddit account. I have a lot of fun screwing around and making little comment jokes. I find a trove of cool groups in there with interests similar to mine. I get into a big fight over crochet. I have a lot of fun for a while, but then life gets grindy and I don't have the energy to beat up on racist white ladies about yarn crafts anymore. I go semi-dormant. I start going hard on World of Warcraft and let that babysit my personality for a while. It takes a while, and a whole other stream of telecoms iteration, but I eventually find a new cool thing: Discord.
It is 2016, I make my first discord account. I mostly use it to bother people who invited me into their groups for some reason. People enjoy it. I amass a small list of groups who would like more of my bullshit. I eventually realize I mostly just want to harass a couple of them, and the rest can hit me up if they want stuff from me, I guess. I prune the list viciously. I am content.
It is 2022, and I still hang out on Discord most days. I have still kept up some tenuous twitter ties. I post on reddit mainly when I'm high and feel like giving people small chuckles. I retain my stupid facebook profile, mostly because it's so difficult to get it removed. If I cared to wade through the halls of memory I could probably find my old lj again. I'd hesitate to log into it though. I hear it's some kind of malware now.
It is 2022, and unlike every other time, I make my first Dreamwidth account not because it's the newest, coolest thing, but because one of my most steadfast things, Twitter, is in deep distress because some irresponsible tech nerd wannabe apparently bought it to make himself feel better because people insist on calling him and irresponsible nerd. But I'm here and I'm typing and it's like slipping into my oldest, most threadbare underpants. It's soft and familiar in a way I didn't think a digital screen could be.
I'm old now. I don't need the newest, coolest thing. I'll stick with the thing I like.
It is 2002, I make my first facebook account. I use it to post a bunch of dumb bullshit and also talk to some of my family that's further away from me. People enjoy it, I amass a small following. I eventually decide I don't like fb anymore, as it has ceased to be a way to see my friends and has become a nonstop ad scroll. I go semi-dormant. I start hearing about the newest coolest thing, twitter.
It is 2005, I make my first twitter account. I start having fun doing little stupid posts about whatever my brain has found today. People enjoy them. I amass a small following with a few people from my fb and lj following and also some new other people. I eventually realize that even though it's less work overall I am still doing a lot of work to make little jokes. I go semi-dormant. I start hearing about something else that's cool, but not newer, just different: reddit.
It is 2008, I make my reddit account. I have a lot of fun screwing around and making little comment jokes. I find a trove of cool groups in there with interests similar to mine. I get into a big fight over crochet. I have a lot of fun for a while, but then life gets grindy and I don't have the energy to beat up on racist white ladies about yarn crafts anymore. I go semi-dormant. I start going hard on World of Warcraft and let that babysit my personality for a while. It takes a while, and a whole other stream of telecoms iteration, but I eventually find a new cool thing: Discord.
It is 2016, I make my first discord account. I mostly use it to bother people who invited me into their groups for some reason. People enjoy it. I amass a small list of groups who would like more of my bullshit. I eventually realize I mostly just want to harass a couple of them, and the rest can hit me up if they want stuff from me, I guess. I prune the list viciously. I am content.
It is 2022, and I still hang out on Discord most days. I have still kept up some tenuous twitter ties. I post on reddit mainly when I'm high and feel like giving people small chuckles. I retain my stupid facebook profile, mostly because it's so difficult to get it removed. If I cared to wade through the halls of memory I could probably find my old lj again. I'd hesitate to log into it though. I hear it's some kind of malware now.
It is 2022, and unlike every other time, I make my first Dreamwidth account not because it's the newest, coolest thing, but because one of my most steadfast things, Twitter, is in deep distress because some irresponsible tech nerd wannabe apparently bought it to make himself feel better because people insist on calling him and irresponsible nerd. But I'm here and I'm typing and it's like slipping into my oldest, most threadbare underpants. It's soft and familiar in a way I didn't think a digital screen could be.
I'm old now. I don't need the newest, coolest thing. I'll stick with the thing I like.
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