It's been about a bazillion years since I last logged onto Blogger. Back then were the days of MySpace and LiveJournal, and all of those other pre-Facebook, pre-Google-owns-everything things that people did to be creative and wind down, and be social. The internet was like the wild west, fresh and new for discovery, and full of infective dangers in the form of trojans and worms and all sorts of other hackery things.
These days the internet has been carved and shaped into a corporate mess of bland suburbanite-esque monstrosities designed to part you from your money, make you think you have friends while keeping you in a mild-to-severe depressive state (so you can buy more things to feel 'happy'), and to make you think that "Yes! You too can become an internet star!" The viruses and hackery things are still there, but more sophisticated, and these days more apt to steal your personal data for corporate use rather than render your computer useless.
So, maybe I'm a bit of a cynic, but times have changed and I'm not so sure it's for the better. Perhaps a quick dip in the nostalgia pool of Blogger will bring back some of the feels of the old days, and give a bit of a place of refuge from the brain-rot of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the occasional News story built to scare and depress for hits. A place to be creative and write, and lance the pustules growing in my brain meats.
Perhaps no one will read this. Perhaps no one should. Does it matter? Not in the least...
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