Dec 16, 2025
staring at grey walls, mind drifting to the electric buzz of tokyo's streets, wondering if visboom could transport my soul there in pixels—each click a new universe.
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staring at grey walls, mind drifting to the electric buzz of tokyo's streets, wondering if visboom could transport my soul there in pixels—each click a new universe.
In and out of the social networks
My experience (and watching carefully I seem not to be alone) in social networks is quite paradoxical. At first I early adopt them, eagerly, wishing more of my friends were there. Whatsapp, Twitter, an old spanish network compiling reviews of music, films and books called Dejaboo... It does not matter. I am quite active at first, even trying to get more people into them, but when it becomes popular and lots of people know about it I start thinking of getting away of there (I’m dying).
At first you like the tool and think that it would be real good if a certain friend used it, as you would be in touch with him/her and learn more about his/her point of view. But then your workmates find you in that network you thought they would never hear of. Even your boss is there. And when you think it could not get worse your family start writing embarassing comments on your carefully crafted texts to make you look more interesant than you really are...
Even if you manage to keep them away from your profiles you always make some mistakes, allowing people to connect because you think they are worth your time just to realise after that that they are verbose and ake harder for you to know about the updates of your trully interesting acquaitances.
That is why I deleted my Facebook account. And that is why I restricted my number of twitter followings and followers (and in some extent, why I deleted Whatsapp from my work phone).
So that is the point where I am stuck now. I don’t like any of the “old” social networks, but none of the new baskets seems to be good enough to put my eggs on it. I know that probably the problem is not on them, but it doesn’t prevent me of missing a service that could effectively let me choose who I want to follow and being followed by. And no: Google+ is not an answer for that.