hi hello !
I’m going to do a general post because its Friday and I’m talking to my friend who’s visiting from Georgia! I’m going to post every other day from now on, maybe make every wednesdays BBTB posts?
• on the books front, I’m reading The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne. by my own accord. not a school assignment, ( in fact, I don’t have English class until next semester ): ) on my phones app. very useful. this book was written in 1850. 1850! this book was written 159 years ago! and I was when they didn’t have electricity, when everything was extremely simplistic. and to think, I’m now reading his book with no paper at all. it blows my mind. I hope I write a book that lasts centuries. I wonder what books will be on in 2168? will the words be transported into your mind? will books be obsolete, and everything we see is on television? will writers cease to exist, and new be reported by eye witnessess only, a la twitter?
anyway, I’m enjoying the book, surprisingly. I like how its not modernized, and that “thee” and “ye” and “thou” are in it. its cool how a book that old is still interesting. I wanna know who the father is, and if Pearl is like supernatural or something? I don’t know, but I like it.
• on the boy front, ha, I’m being a bit of a creep. there’s this boy that I like and I had my friend request him on myspace so I can look at his page. only thing is, his page makes it embarrassing to like him because his page is the generic myspace with lots of apps and weird sayings. I shudder to think of what the music on it might be.
I think its weird that you see someone in reality and their different from how they are on the internet. we create different personas and hope that people like the “fake” us, so that they may like the real us. but who is the real us? don’t get me wrong, sometimes people are the same on the internet and in real life, and some people are completely different. I, for example, am much more shy in real life than I am on the internet. I’m much more honest on my blog and twitter and I actually say what’s on my mind here than when I do when I’m with my friends. but I’m not that different. I still feel and think the same way, I just don’t express it.
are we lying to ourselves and the internet when we don’t act ourselves? or is it ok? some people pretend to be the opposite sex and trick people into falling in love with them. that’s definitely a lie. those people are terrible. that is such a bad thing to do, I know if someone tricked me id be angry. the point of this ramble is that on the internet, we embellish, sometimes a bit, sometimes a lot.
and that’s not always a bad thing.
xo, a
To my mind, people who intentionally behave differently on the Internet and real life isn’t going to be somebody I would like – I only trust people that are genuine, as the ones who have different persona’s online I think are probably those type of people you cannot trust to tell the truth, people who are manipulative e.t.c, or simply young pretenders, trying to be something they are not and acting like d**ks.
Of course, that’s not to say that somebody who has a persona slightly different online, that just occurs unintentionally, fall into that category at all, as of course people behave differently in different situations.