As of right now, my disposition before this immersion, I am not a fan. The obsessions over social media are, to me, a rather excessive waste of time and show our weakness as a culture. People know when some 'celebrity' makes a load of poor choices but never meet their neighbors. Circles of interpersonal relationships are distant, fragmented, and provide no benefit at all for the people involved. Why, then, does it continue? What is the draw of obsessively following a person who has never met you, never cares to meet you, will probably never meet you, and almost assuredly would not bat an eyelash if you were to suddenly vanish off of the face of the earth?
Also, really, how many people are going to care what you think? As this is part of a class assignment, I know that there will be a number of people with access to these words, but how many will take the time to read them? How many would find them interesting enough to come back in the future? All this, and I even KNOW that people will see it. What if I started this independently and left the substance to flow out into cyberspace? Sure, people are joined all the time in a complex web, the culture would not exist otherwise, but what about all those people who are left out or looked over? How many of them are there? And then, coming back to the old point, why should we even care?
As for this project...
- Best case scenario: I discover what it is I have been missing, join a great and new community, and experience life in a new way, etc. Typical best case scenario stuff.
- Worst case scenario: I become so engrossed and confused in the participation in this experience that I lose all grip on reality slowly becoming insane. You know, typical outlandish worst case scenario stuff.
- Likely scenario: I learn some things, I do some things, I change some things, and waste a whole bunch of time in the process that would, more than likely, be spent wasting my time doing other things.
