Was talking with a friend today about how things are "different" now. Neither of us could put a finger on what it was that made things feel different...
I received a text and it was put perfectly...."feeling around in the darkness...are you there?"
Twitter and Facebook used to be really fun places. Where you made friends, and you shared funny things, and you shared your life, and it was this community. An actual real live community. It's hard to explain to people who don't "get" Twitter...the sense of friendship and community that come along with it. You interact with these people so much that even if you have never met them you feel like you have. But then you DO meet them and it's like you've known each other forever.
I get that things change. Sometimes slowly and over time and before you know it you're left standing there wondering what happened. That's how I'm feeling today. Like I woke up and thought to myself "Where did my community go?"
I met some really great people through twitter. Some of them are still
there and some of them have pulled away in real life. I'm having trouble
with that too...the people who have pulled away in real life...people I
thought I'd be friends with forever are not including me in their lives
anymore and that hurts.
That community sort of feels lonely now. Has social media just "jumped the shark?" I don't know. Maybe. That community now feels like a person who is trying too hard. That community used to be get togethers and getting through the day together and living vicariously through what others were doing and I could go on and on.
My hope is that this community isn't gone for good. My hope is that there is just an odd lull in the community and that someone turns the lights back on.
I'm not sure I like the darkness.
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