Do you remember chat rooms? When I first started using AOL, oh, back in 1995, that's pretty much all it was. Chat rooms. Sure, there was news and I could check my online portfolio but mostly America was online to type furiously at groups of complete strangers, or so it seemed to me. Part of the fun was trying to figure out who it was that you were really chatting with. Everybody had their carefully crafted personae to prance wildly about in whilst attempting to achieve various strange personal goals. Or maybe I was hanging out in all of the wrong chat rooms. The real reason that I'm bringing it all up is how radically different the beast has become over the years. Back in the days when we were text and nothing more it was so easy to pretend at being something else, but now that we've all been given the options of posting not only words, but also photos and even streaming video it seems to have grounded us instead of evolving the original fantasy. Instead of telling a room of complete strangers about the being we wish to emulate, we make damned sure that everyone on the planet wide web knows who we are, what we're wearing and where we wear it with whom we...
You know what else I've realised lately? I really need to learn how to write.
You know what else I've realised lately? I really need to learn how to write.