Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Modern False Prophets

“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were to feel dangerous.” –Alfred Adler

Social networks are changing the way we communicate with the world.  They are transforming how we connect with others and how we represent ourselves to the public.  This blog is an example.  I know personally a dozen people who read it; however this blog has approximately three dozen weekly readers in total.   

If you subscribe to Sacred Contracts, I’m sure that you can identify my twelve primary archetypes.  If you do not, then I don’t have much to add other than this: These blogs are me.  For those who do not know me in person, these blogs are as personal as it gets.  If you don’t like what I write, then you won’t want to spend any one-on-one time with me.  If you believe what I am sharing would warrant me an invite for kaffee und kuchen, then we are on the same page.  For me blogging is about personal growth, and sharing my lessons/thoughts with whomever drifts this way.

Internet-based networking has changed how we write our stories.  We are the heroine, the artist, the storyteller, the warrior, the mystic, and the increasingly popular, victim.  You see the profiles.  The sock puppet accounts, the single ‘couples’ accounts, the love-me-for my-big-cock or big-titties accounts, the “I’m so misunderstood” accounts.

We see the empty profiles with a question mark for the personal icon, no groups, no wall posts, no events, maybe a handful of “friends”.  My thoughts:  Cheater or a second profile so someone can write about their real thoughts on a discussion board.  We see the individual account that has an introduction of “we are a couple”.  My thoughts:  Trouble in paradise or there are serious trust issues present.  Every so often someone writes a journal entry about the small-minded people are who only show a picture of their huge cock or udder-ly enormous breasts on their profile.  I do not think small-minded.  I think, “Nice.  Me like. I wonder how many people without ethics or ‘moral purpose’ are hitting on them right now?”  Boys and girls, this is a public service announcement: Transparent insecurity is an aphrodisiac to predators.

Then we see the profiles that have one or two lengthy paragraphs about how they, the profile owners, need to explain themselves.  They are just simple folk who are misunderstood by a few in the community.  And if you, the reader, ever talk to those rouge few, they just have to put the whole story out there, to explain all the rumors and false information you, the reader, may hear.  My thoughts: Drama-rama is part of their makeup.  And they must be pretty full of themselves to think I give two farts about the sliver of a chance I may run into these rouge few who have something unpleasant to say about them.  The profiles I really appreciate are those who say this-is-who-I-am without all the trappings and bullshit.

For the longest time I did not have a ‘real’ profile.  I called it a 'shell'.  Then I added two links: one to Twitter and one to this blog.  It has only been in the past few months I added the ‘petition for service’ part of my about me section.  Overall I have not changed my stance about how I want to connect with people: meet me at a munch or an event.  I give you glimpses of my thought processes via this blog.  However, if you really want to get to know the genuine article, you need to do it face to face.  No matter how many times I post to this blog or I modify my 'about me' section, you will never get to truly experience Me using an internet-based social network.

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