Ok… here’s where I talk about all things going on in my internet life.
First, Dailybooth… the picture-a-day site. Well, some people do a pic a week, some treat it like hourlybooth, but I digress. I’ve decided to stay on the Dailybooth site. As you know, if you’ve read my earlier postings last week, you know that I went through some personal struggles, with a friend on that site, that ended with ties being severed. This was very painful for me to deal with, as I had gotten to really like that person. Unfortunately, my wife’s feelings were hurt and she felt threatened by some things that were said and, instead of leaving well enough alone, I tried to make all parties reconcile. Bad mistake; you can never make two people get to know and like one another, no matter what you do. Because of my mistake, and other things that happened as a result, I lost a friend. I was so hurt by this, that I just wanted to leave and never return. I felt that, because of the circle of friends on there that this friend and I share, it would be painful to comment on the same pics and see them commenting as well, and not be able to reach out to them.
Well, I thought that I was doing some long thinking in the decision to leave, but I now realize that when you think about what to do in a situation, while you’re still having strong emotion, you’re not going to make an objective decision. So, after more hard thinking for a week until last night, I decided to stay with the Dailybooth community. Several things played into this decision. First, all of the comments from friends on my “farewell” pic made a lot of sense. For example, GratefulDogZX, a friend on DB and overall good guy, put it best when he explained that all of my other followers shouldn’t have to lose me because of a falling out with one person. Second, a quote from Bill Cosby, that sometimes appears on the random quotes section of my blog sidebar, states: “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” It’s so true; you shouldn’t try to be all things to all people. Third, someone else’s feelings were hurt on DB and mentioned that my decision to leave was probably a good route for them to follow. Well, in my thoughts this week, I concluded that no one should have to leave a site because of personal pain over any situation or anybody (and this person even went so far as to say that they missed me and our conversations on DB. That meant the world to me).
Even my wife doesn’t want me to leave Dailybooth, even though she’s gotten pissed about the time I spend on it sometimes!
My decision to stay on Dailybooth is conditional. I got so wrapped up in it personally, that I lost focus on the other sites in my internet existence that are important to me. Even more so, I lost focus on the things that matter to me in real life. This can’t happen again. This blog, for instance, was severely neglected for almost two months! Now I’m reminded that I have to always strive for balance in everything that I do. If that means setting time for this and that and the other thing, then so be it. I value Dailybooth and everyone in it, but I value the rest of my life too, y’know? I say this more to myself, than anyone in particular. The site, and the way things work on it, is just that addictive… even if you’re not even remotely an extrovert by nature. With that being said, I’ll move on to the next topic.
This last week enabled me to blog more, and also catch up with my friends and family on Facebook. This is an area that is also needing some attention, bigtime. However, I will NOT get caught up in those app games on it (such as MafiaWars or other games). I have too many other interests to divide myself with! However, chatting it up with everyone on there this week has been a blast.
I’ll be posting a bunch of pictures to my Flickr account today or tomorrow. I’ll also share some samples and links here. I’ve been using Flickr a lot more because the convenience and community sharing far outweighs that which I have in the picture gallery on my personal site here. That’s not to say I won’t use the gallery here; it will be for more personal galleries and family pictures. This is one area that Dailybooth helped resurrect in me; my love of photography. I’ve been using my camera more and learning manual shooting to get the best out of my pictures. As a result, I have a new, potentially wallet-breaking hobby!
Of course, I still have Twitter, the stalk-me micro-blogging site. My interaction with that will never change. So, go ahead and “stalk” me there, if you’re not already! The sidebar here has my recent tweets, so you can see what I’m up to, even if you don’t feel like visiting my Twitter page.
I haven’t been making videos like I used to. YouTube is still an excellent forum for sharing videos, but I haven’t had much reason to do a video yet. However, I will still make videos on special occasions or when I really have to share/review a new acquisition. All of my recent YouTube vids are in the sidebar as well, so feel free to watch me being, well, boring old me… hah!
Well, thank you all for reading this. I realize I just unwittingly gave myself some goals to work on. However, these are healthy goals and ones that I think I can reach. One more goal for me: write an entry a day in this blog. So far, this week I’ve been doing pretty good with this objective. It shouldn’t be so hard to, at least, devote about 15 minutes into the blog. It can even be an extension of what I’m doing on Dailybooth, since that has been a “blogging” platform of sorts.
I’ll conclude the blog entry here with this thought. One could just as easily live their whole lives on the internet, as they would in real life… but it just wouldn’t be as interesting as what real life offers us! Cheers!
