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 I think, therefore I blog. I blog, and therefore I kill people. I kill people because no one cares what I think.
That's the basic premise of this Dentyne animated short, which I shouldn't find funny seeing as I'm posting this on the Editor's Blog. This short is part of Dentyne's Making Face Time ad campaign which I think is pretty clever and makes me a little emotional. It makes me teary because the point of the campaign is to remind everyone to take breaks from technology and spend more time together in real life, and I am the poster child for not doing that. Why have a real life when I can hide behind technology? I have a website on which I blog. I remember when it was funny that Barney on "How I Met Your Mother" had a blog. Now it seems like everyone has a blog except people that I wish had one.I don't think I say anything particularly interesting, but people enjoy it and I don't have to actually talk to them. I have a Facebook page that I constantly update and that I use to secretly stalk people. Has she changed her status update? Does he have pictures of a girlfriend on his site? Why is my co-worker uploading a new photo in the middle of the day? You don't exist if you're not on Facebook. I have actually searched for people on Facebook and decided that "0 Results Found" meant they were dead. I mourned my college roommate Ingrid Vogelfanger and summer school hook-upTopher Ruegg. Of course, the problem with Facebook is that you do exist; judging from the amount of people I knew from high school who Facebook me, one would think I was actually popular. I spend so much time on Facebook that I created Friends lists so I can talk freely about the others. I mean, no I don't do that. But I could do that. I have two Twitter accounts. Am I narcissist? No, I'm a voyeur. Well, I may be a narcissist, but it has nothing to do with Twitter. I occasionally update my personal one, but mainly I just follow people. I'm not even sure why. Some of them are clients (I do have a work life outside of IndustryNexus, which of course is on Twitter ) and some I just follow because… well, I don't know. Because I feel like Twitter is a necessary evil. I honestly don't care what most of these people think or say. Nevertheless, if they say something interesting, I want to be the first to know. And yet of course my opinion matters. (Just ask my co-workers, who wouldn't agree that my opinion matters per se, but they'd certainly agree that I think what I think matters.) So my blog is my outlet. It's not that I necessarily care that you read it, but typing it out and posting it allows the possibility that others may read it and share my pain. Or,not. Pass the Dentyne.
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