As of late, my output has been exclusively provided in 140 character segments. This world is ever-changing, and I must change with it. Remember when we all thought we were cool because we knew HTML, or CSS? We used to decorate our Live Journals and Vampire Freaks pages up to impress newcomers, crossing our fingers and hoping they'd give us a 10 for a rating? Those were the good ole days, way back 6 years ago.
When we finally got Myspace, we said "Okay, who really needs all these other social networking sites anymore? This shall be the new standard, and nothing could ever get in the way of this."
Shortly after Rupert Murdock purchased it, we all did the same thing when Facebook became a news item. "Oh no, that's okay. I have Myspace, I don't need to go to Facebook. Everything is fine the way it is right now. Besides, I finally have my profile looking exactly the way I want!"
Shortly after, there appeared a new status update on Facebook. "Randy has finally made the leap to Facebook and still doesn't see what the big deal is." One week later, after 30-60 friend requests from people he used to go to High School with and haven't spoken to in 8 years years. "Hey! Long time no see! How goes life?"
Who knew a day later they'd never say another word again? Anything to make that accumulated number of friends go up, right? "I think I spoke to them once or twice in Study Hall, right?" *sends friend request* (It's worth a shot)
So now who needs anymore distractions? Facebook has it all. "Twitter? WTF is a Twitter? Sounds raunchy!" Again, 3 months later there's a status update on Twitter, "No one's following me right now so I should probably just get right down to the point. Well, I can't right now due to a 140 character limit." After that point, I guess we're all supposed to think of witty things to say.
My juice for writing updates has been almost completely spent on that sort of nonsense. So I close with my latest update:
"This is a milestone in history, where officially every electronic device built is required to have an mp3 playing capability."
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