Social media

If you gaze into the social media long enough it will not gaze back.

There is noone on facebook to talk to. Or put it that way - there are a lot of people to talk to - that is of course if you qualify square profile images under names as people - but noone will hear you. You know that - yet you still occasionally put your heart and soul in it.

Twitter is no better.  The life of a post lasts a second. Every retweet is a reincarnation - which also lasts a second. Nobody will go back and read through what you said. It is quantity over quality. Very easy to overuse exclamation marks on twitter, it is. And you have to count your words, and even your letters. It is almost like going back 10 years and SMS texting on your Nokia 3310. (Apropos, I still own and use a Nokia).

Embrace the emptiness.