the leaves have turned yellow.....
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
randomness...
145am... and i cant sleep. Brain's juz thumping away with random thoughts... it's one of those nites when i'm sooo tired i can sleep 24 hrs straight, but my brain refuses to give me a rest. Is this a good sign that i have an active brain? probably not at this moment....
so... here goes my randomness...: 'human behavior in blogs or the action of blogging'
I've always wondered, what's the rationale behind blogging? the efforts to set up a blog: rack ya brains for an ULTRA cool but not so cheesy blog address, choose a way... cool skin that gets people asking you where you got it, create a playlist with ya fav songs which, the definition of fav probably changes faster than you can say 'blog', create a tag board for pple to write TOTALLY short and curt comments, create a list of links to ya frens' blogs to possibly LINK you up with the whole world, upload pics/videos which always seem to take forever, thinking of the title for ya blog post while you're doing something totally out of this world even before you get to post about it... fine, i admit that thats me. But dun lie through ya teeth that you didn go through all these...
Psychology: the study of human behavior. IT's cynical how i study it, yet i dun understand human behavior. The more i understand, the more i get disgusted by it. ok. sorry, disgusted is probably too strong a word... let's try... 'bewildered'. and yes, i know that i'm part of the human race. I've kinda concluded that you can TOTALLY get to know a person through a blog. I dun mean the individual, but the general human race in this case.
I could probably interview a thousand pple and ask them the qn,"why do you blog". And i think i'd probably get a fifteenth (dun ask why 15th, randomness remember) of that number of answers. It could be to boast/announce to the whole world that they DO exist as an individual and not merely a drop in the ocean of billions of people; it could be to announce to the world their impeccable technological skills or artistic flair as they compete to see who creates the most advanced blog eliciting the most 'ooooh-aaaah'; it could be b'cos they are TOTALLY bored out such that they need to be expressing their thoughts while mumbling to themselves and typing on an 8 inch keyboard; it could be to flaunt that picture-perfect portrait you took at a latest club on a friday nite with a shooter in hand and your face is juz all the over the place, only difference it's with different pple. Photoshop could have done a better job.
I guess this applies to every other modes of 'networking' (so they call it) that we have now: friendster, facebook, a system that lets you send SMS to every single fren what you are doing that VERY/at EVERY instant! gosh..... can you even sue that fren for harassment? I guess it definitely goes beyond blogging. Or probably, see it beyond the individual, and you see a psycho-social perspective. Beyond that, its a Vygotsky-perspective of the 'larger environment'. Voila! A tripartite model of you, ya social circle and ya 'larger environment'.
So what caused this human behavior? The evolution of human race (probably an evolution of increasing self-satiation/growing egoism?) OR a widening social circle such that it makes you SOOO hard to keep communicate, you need all these gimmicks? For goodness sake, we've survived an age without computers, phones, Blackberry, the Internet. Probably all you need is some psychologist to teach you some social/communication skills. OR the 'larger information' of infotechnology 'forces/compels' you to adhere to such behavior. Or it could simply be the 'larger environment' of culture which advocates such a mode of communication. or it's the physical sense of a 'larger environment' where you start to know a bigger world (beyond ya little island where you live on) out there actually exists. Probably due to a phenomemon called 'gloablisation'.
So probably the next time you wanna type ya status in ya facebook account, y not juz try visiting (calling if that person if halfway around the globe) that fren/enemy and tell them in their face how ya doing. You'd either be exhilarated to see ya fren's happiness for you; or get a kick to see the look on ya enemy's face (btw, god says love ya enemy as ya neightbour....... along those lines)
P.S. dun be offended if you can identify yourself with whatever i'm saying. Trust me, i WASNT referring to you. I understand that i'm blogging at this very moment. So if anyone shld identify with this the most, it has to be me.
so... here goes my randomness...: 'human behavior in blogs or the action of blogging'
I've always wondered, what's the rationale behind blogging? the efforts to set up a blog: rack ya brains for an ULTRA cool but not so cheesy blog address, choose a way... cool skin that gets people asking you where you got it, create a playlist with ya fav songs which, the definition of fav probably changes faster than you can say 'blog', create a tag board for pple to write TOTALLY short and curt comments, create a list of links to ya frens' blogs to possibly LINK you up with the whole world, upload pics/videos which always seem to take forever, thinking of the title for ya blog post while you're doing something totally out of this world even before you get to post about it... fine, i admit that thats me. But dun lie through ya teeth that you didn go through all these...
Psychology: the study of human behavior. IT's cynical how i study it, yet i dun understand human behavior. The more i understand, the more i get disgusted by it. ok. sorry, disgusted is probably too strong a word... let's try... 'bewildered'. and yes, i know that i'm part of the human race. I've kinda concluded that you can TOTALLY get to know a person through a blog. I dun mean the individual, but the general human race in this case.
I could probably interview a thousand pple and ask them the qn,"why do you blog". And i think i'd probably get a fifteenth (dun ask why 15th, randomness remember) of that number of answers. It could be to boast/announce to the whole world that they DO exist as an individual and not merely a drop in the ocean of billions of people; it could be to announce to the world their impeccable technological skills or artistic flair as they compete to see who creates the most advanced blog eliciting the most 'ooooh-aaaah'; it could be b'cos they are TOTALLY bored out such that they need to be expressing their thoughts while mumbling to themselves and typing on an 8 inch keyboard; it could be to flaunt that picture-perfect portrait you took at a latest club on a friday nite with a shooter in hand and your face is juz all the over the place, only difference it's with different pple. Photoshop could have done a better job.
I guess this applies to every other modes of 'networking' (so they call it) that we have now: friendster, facebook, a system that lets you send SMS to every single fren what you are doing that VERY/at EVERY instant! gosh..... can you even sue that fren for harassment? I guess it definitely goes beyond blogging. Or probably, see it beyond the individual, and you see a psycho-social perspective. Beyond that, its a Vygotsky-perspective of the 'larger environment'. Voila! A tripartite model of you, ya social circle and ya 'larger environment'.
So what caused this human behavior? The evolution of human race (probably an evolution of increasing self-satiation/growing egoism?) OR a widening social circle such that it makes you SOOO hard to keep communicate, you need all these gimmicks? For goodness sake, we've survived an age without computers, phones, Blackberry, the Internet. Probably all you need is some psychologist to teach you some social/communication skills. OR the 'larger information' of infotechnology 'forces/compels' you to adhere to such behavior. Or it could simply be the 'larger environment' of culture which advocates such a mode of communication. or it's the physical sense of a 'larger environment' where you start to know a bigger world (beyond ya little island where you live on) out there actually exists. Probably due to a phenomemon called 'gloablisation'.
So probably the next time you wanna type ya status in ya facebook account, y not juz try visiting (calling if that person if halfway around the globe) that fren/enemy and tell them in their face how ya doing. You'd either be exhilarated to see ya fren's happiness for you; or get a kick to see the look on ya enemy's face (btw, god says love ya enemy as ya neightbour....... along those lines)
P.S. dun be offended if you can identify yourself with whatever i'm saying. Trust me, i WASNT referring to you. I understand that i'm blogging at this very moment. So if anyone shld identify with this the most, it has to be me.
rainbow:D
there's a rainbow in the sky
on the green grass i lie
with the wind blowing in my hair
and Krispy Kreme in my hand
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