This is my first blog post. Isn’t it awful how we’ve reached a point of Being On The Internet where we have to qualify stuff like that? Isn’t it enough that these words just exist online? Why bother with dates?
The only thing blogs consist of most days is this:
[Address a nameless mass] + [apologize profusely for not having blogged in forever] + [talk about your rebanding]I used to have a LiveJournal back in the day and I would say that the sweet memory of using that platform with all my friends is enough to energize me to keep up a regular blogging habit here, but I don’t think it is. Blogging, commenting, sharing—things used to be much more of a two-way street instead of shouting into a void. My LiveJournal in high school’s reach was 10 people—11 when my brother found it, then 10 again when I made it private. Is something like that possible anymore?
Not that that’s what I’m expecting this to be. This, what I’m writing right now, is promo letsbehonest.
Maybe that certain kind of small-sweetness on the internet is only for kids and can’t be replicated on Professional Branded Platforms. Is Snapchat the thing that provides that for kids? Probably not, but who knows.
Anyway.
That’s another thing all blogs consist of: [negation of previous paragraph] + “Anyway/Anywayyy”
Probably not, but who knows, anywayyyy. It’s like an FDA warning at the bottom of a drug ad. You want to make sure you can say “Well, I even said in the blog post that I didn’t know for sure” if someone calls you out on something. We don’t want to be wrong! I don’t even want to be wrong about likening it to an FDA warning. Is it an FDA warning or something else? Originally I had typed “Surgeon General’s warning” but that didn’t seem right, so I googled it and found out that a Surgeon General warning is for cigarette cartons and the warnings that play during drug commercials are mandated by the FDA but I’m still not sure if they can actually be called FDA warnings so probably not, but who knows anyway.
It’s a nerve wracking thing.