What
will I do with Social Media?
Welcome to my new
place were I'll be posting blogs. This is a copy linked to my
"OneNote" account which I can't simply disclose to anyone for
personal reasons. I know how fast controversial information is being shared. No
wonder we hear things like: "the whole school knows about this". It
also may seems that information "booms" may only happen within a
closed environment. Closed environment would be the actual school. Beyond that
point people wouldn't really care about the information. Similarly like most of
the people don't care what happens in other countries… heck they don't care
what happens across the street.
You see I can't make
an "information boom" like I once did at school because there is this
enclosed part of society there and if I did anything that they would care
about, obviously I would get attention. Now I may be working here and there, but
I am not in any environment at all where I would make comments about something
they cared… or at-least I am too young for that environment. So there are two
criteria in order for "information boom" to happen: 1. You must be
involved with the community. 2. Community must be involved with you. Or in
other words… you have to have a community relationship or be writing about
people that are within the higher involvement within the community. This is why
most popular media are either made by "stars" or are
parodies/copies/reviews of the original. Youtube might be hard to understand if
you apply, but it's all because of it's young environment. And even then you
see that it's hard to get up in the rankings without a few year old commitment.
And also each youtuber has it's own community… So you would assume that by
making any content discussing that youtuber… you would get his followers
attention.
So now let's cut to
the chase and figure out the question I have given. Let's start by asking what
do I need Social Media for and what is my choice of achieving that goal. For a
long time I've been a loner… no, not lonely, but a person that would keep it to
himself. Figure out things, discover, learn… it was all done in a closed
environment most of the time. Now I have to say that's a pretty inefficient way
to go because this way I also reduced the amount of important experiences I had
with friends. In some cases I would develop a certain fear of being social with
other people, which would perpetually grow stronger from being inactive. And
then at some point I would understand how important feedback is and simply
start making videos on what I cared about. And what I care about is getting to
the truth, figuring out what is the most efficient way to do things, what is
the best way to treat language, how to make great art… how to live your life to
the fullest. All of this would require me to think very deeply on what I have
already experienced in life, would also require me to watch a lot of personal
development and "waking up" videos to understand the things that
normal person would ignore. Because information is out there… we're actively
ignoring it. Back in the days of books… we would dream of something so
convenient as internet. And even then I understand… I want even more
convenience, I don't want to waste too much time searching for knowledge, I
want people to organize it and put it into videos that would be easy to
understand. But if you’re hooked up to something you will take any form of
information… as some people may be reading this instead of watching the video I
might make saying same things.
There is an obvious
need to be connected with humanity and to help it improve and grow. I have
devoted thus far many years of my life to seek for knowledge. And I've
obviously started to like it, adapt to such lifestyle and think that only I can
do things that I do. And you can't disprove that because I have developed MY
OWN way to analyze things. I have created what I call "Wheel of Life"
that only I understand the best and through what I ask ALL the questions. I
assume that the answer must be there. Now I am not sure if a chance to make
something like I did is low or high, but it really works. Perhaps it's just the
way we create and interpret art where we can put almost infinite amount of
information into one painting/symbol. This is why art is so powerful…
So I will do my best
to present people as much knowledge that I've been able to discover. The only
thing I want in return is to grab someone's attention, get then to improve
their lives, move on from making the same mistakes. This topic is deep: how to
make myself happy just by helping others? I figured out that the most selfish
thing I can do is to NOT put what I have collected out there for those who are
curious enough. It MUST be out there, in the most reachable way that I can
attain, in the most organized manner. This is kind of most people tend to do
with social media, post their everyday lives. And this is simply what my life
consist of, what kind of achievement I am trying to make. I would say that the
biggest difference is that I am very ambitious of how I want to organize all
this. I will probably not be satisfied by what tools social media will give me
and might have to make my own ways to express my ideas. One good way that I
have is through making games. And my programming skills will surely come in
handy when dealing with my ambition to present you my "collection" in
the most approachable way.
Now being most
specifically: I don't know if I can be specific… Surely Facebook will remain a
place where I will post the news, but it will only contain the links to the
deeper realm of my presentation. I don't believe I'll be using Twitter… One
site in question is: Instagram. I kind of like being there, but it always
stricken me that Facebook has almost the same features… what's the difference
here? There is something clean about that place. One cool thing is like the
comment section where you can have some weird interactions. Another thing is
that people are likely to deliberately open your profile when they feel like
it. Both of these points however are very similar between both sites. Hmm so
far the only thing I can tell good about Instagram is that you can actually
tell how many people are interested in it… So you can see it's really hard to
tell what to do. People are simply playing around on different platforms and
focus on things that stick out as successful. Doing all this from a thinking
standpoint is much more difficult. But in the end when you know you can never
go back to the unknown. If I reach success by knowing, I will never lose it.
And this is what I am aiming for here. Any decision I will make will most
likely be a well thought out choice.
I am probably a
horrible writer even though I've already spent so much of my time… even
something like writing requires a lot of time to figure out how to do it right.
I am saying this because I was attempting to fix the blogpost by rereading it
and rewriting the key points, but same thing cut me down from such process: I
should do it better next time. Similarly to game programming. I actually have
to start my work with a blank sheet. This MUST happen almost every time. Even
if the paper is not even blank… you imagine that it is. And maybe this should
be a story for another time ;)
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