Thursday, 7 January 2016

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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