Not everyone in Facebook and even in my family knows that I once had a Tumblr account. That blogging site is very practical and convenient, in fact, I have learned to love its interface and it itself made an impact on my everyday blogging life.
Despite the convenience and other things good in it, I have been socially offended by the people in it. Even though I have the gift of occasional foresight, I never thought that I would be swimming in a lake called Popularity Contest. I never wanted to be popular. I just wanted to express my thoughts. The longer I stayed there, the more I've seen how, just because of insecurity and unnecessary hatred towards each other, the people there, despite their established friendships, have began to stab each other at the back. And of course, along with other personal, social, and health-related reasons, I left.
"Blog to express, not to impress."
True.
I believed in this from the day I read this and I will forever believe so. Another reason why I left is that, I, a human of deviated thought processes, have started to think that I need to blog to impress. It cannot be and must be terminated immediately. And so I did.
"Libreng mag-unfollow."
Of course, some people will not always agree to what I write. They will either send me anonymous messages or such but, there's this thing called MINE. As in, MY BLOG. If they don't like what they are seeing then they should close their eyes or look away or for crying out loud, UNFOLLOW me. I never told them, "Huy, basahin mo naman yung blog ko," anyway. Was it my fault that they read it? Was it my decision for them to read? This is a rhetorical question of course. Heck, even newspaper publishers don't tell you to read each and every letter they print in each and every article their writers and advertisers publish!
"Wall ko to, nakikibasa ka lang."
This is in Facebook. The overrated Facebook Wall.
Lately, there's this "friend" who posted a "blind item" in Facebook that was implicitly referring to me. In general, he/she said that he/she is irritated by my posts. Well, I'll give him/her that. It's his/her right to post in his/her Wall whatever he/she prefers.
Though I find it contradicting that a year ago, he/she agreed to the fact that people are just reading on his/her Wall and that he/she doesn't give a damn to whatever it is that they react about.
Look who's clean.
