Fun fact… Lately in the mornings I walk through Grove Street Cemetery and walk my dog, drink my coffee from Willoughbys and smoke a joint. Fred and Rocco the groundskeepers are friends I know from the skateboard scene. Fred came out of the building as I was leaving, just to say what’s up. I had just picked up a ball jar full of a light yellow liquid, which at that point was undefined. I was planning on keeping the jar as long as it wasn’t full of piss. The ball jar was on the fence, near the dumpster, so I assumed it didn’t belong to anybody. And finding a ball jar is better than losing one.
As I was walking back, I was thinking about internet security. If someone really wanted to see all of your text messages, it really doesn’t matter what app you’re using if they have access to unlock your phone. Which isn’t that difficult. Anyways, I was thinking that if all text messages were presented in the form of links to a website, it wouldn’t matter at that point because the website could be manually deleted if privacy for whatever reason became an issue.
It’s also more convenient to write long-form texts in the form of posts. I guess if it’s public, then it’s not really a text to an individual but more of an outward expression of news updating. Perhaps a form of mental processing with regard to the world around.
I’ve been experimenting with this for quite some time. I find that the Blogger platform right now is what resembles the original MYSPACE that we presently still have access to. It’s a marvel that Blogger hasn’t been mothballed, like they did to Google Plus and Google Reader, Google Pages. Picassa. People really lost data when Google decided to pull the plug on those items, and really lost data. I would have a rather difficult time preserving this information if Google decided to shut off blogger.
Thankfully I have the Stereomedia server and there’s plenty of room over there. But I don’t have a tool which allows me to write long form on the go, meaning that I’d have to be at a desktop currently to create a post the same way that I’m able to with Blogger.
There are several apps in the store related to posting to Blogger but most of them don’t really work. There’s one that does, and it also allows me to post photos from my phone, which is ideal.
The thing about Facebook that i detest, aside from it having capitalized on the concept of the high school yearbook, sweeping over society in the late 2000’s with every sign-up, we’re now stuck in a system that doesn’t really benefit us in any significant way, in a model which is being used to create artificial intelligence, that’s designed to target us for marketing stunts on a level of psychological manipulation envious of a CIA operation, which can shut you up if you even so much as mention the wrong person, and won’t even let you bold or italicize words. Which is insane.
So from now on, rather than posting to Facebook, I think I’ll post here. And if I feel like sharing, then I’ll add a link. It’s easier that way.
I’ll also post videos here too. Maybe substack would be a healthy alternative… I’m still trying to figure this out. All i know is that one of the main changes that I need to make is to write more, just to the 11 people who actually read my stuff on facebook, but to whomever wants to read it. Mostly so that I can get through these thoughts, “export” them, and to stop being afraid of expressing myself, for fear I’ll be ostracized and told that I have the wrong ideas.