The digital age we now live in is making us all into chroniclers
of our own lives. We are doing it with such regularity and so close up and personal
we may be losing sight of any bigger picture. Without taking any time to
reflect we post, blog, pin, tweet and generally document everything. I don’t
know about you but for me the ability to record every trivial detail of my existence
as it happens and in real time is starting to bug me a little. Do we all need
this much transparency in our lives? I’m happy to hear how you are doing in
broad strokes but I don’t need a full accounting of your meals, your comings,
your goings, your concerts, your kids, your movies, your TV shows, your sports
(as spectator or as participant) not to mention your world view on politics,
religion, global warming and what you will do in the event you win the next Mega
Million Dollar Lottery. It’s just too much. (Or too much of too little, I’m not
sure).
Blogging is getting out of hand too. I bet the late Andy
Rooney of Sixty Minutes fame is laughing and doing a special broadcast in the afterlife
somewhere that starts something like this: “Did you ever wonder how those folks
on Earth got along without the internet?”
I know I’m guilty of feeding the frenzy myself too. I am a
frequent contributor for a civic organization and I write a website blog
dedicated to real estate and construction. I write three blogs of my own (for
the heck of it) at a rate of approximately twice a month. (It works out to more
than 30,000 words a year for me). I wish I could say I was writing the next
Great American Novel but I’m pretty sure my revelations, while amusing at
times, are not all that earth shattering.
All that being said, I love checking in on my kids, friends
and family. I’m pleasantly surprised to get an unexpected announcement of a
wedding, a birthday or a graduation. You see, this blog has no conclusion or
point of view. It just is…
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