#tuningin

My blog (tumblr), pinterest and things like email are fine.

I remember when Instagram was becoming popular and people were talking about it and using it.  Being the me that I am, I wasn’t in the loop.  I didn’t know what it was all about, but I wasn’t curious either.

Eventually, one day I found interest and signed up.  I haven’t looked back since and I don’t regret it.  I’m in my own world and naturally do things at my own pace.

But now I find myself opening the app and browsing.  Going to the explore page, that internally annoys me when I see things that are trending and utterly uninteresting to me.  It’s psychological that it’s almost as if I feel something mystical will appear if I keep re-opening the app, but I know that its deeper than that for me.  I’ve never been moved with the herd, I wasn’t made that way.

I was just re-opening the app, as a means to in some way temporarily fill in the gap for something else that I knew wasn’t vacant.

The emotional voidance and company voidance.

It was the same with whatsapp, when it was becoming popular I vaguely remember and I had no idea about what it was.  Again, eventually one day I signed up and found it ok but have never been a fan so I deleted it.

I’ve always appreciated traditional text message.

When netflix was all that people spoke about, I had no idea what it was.

I didn’t think to ask, because of my indifference.  Until one day I went into a store called HMV and asked “excuse me, what’s netflix?” 

He told me and then I one day experienced it for myself.

Things like instagram, facebook and twitter are things that I like.  Some more than the other, but they are also someone’s product and a means for someone to make money off of.

I don’t want to be the result of someone’s product.

Nor do I want to be someone’s Product.  If you don’t realise what these things are capable of doing to you, you become a product and become the gullable muse of systems doing.  My eyes are open and they are staying open.

Shortly after making this decision.. I remembered these cupcakes that I used to make when I was little.  Tom and Jerry cupcakes, I could just smell and taste the icing now.. That’s the sort of thing you could do without the linger of social media there.

You can live.  You can bake.