After so many months of blogging drought. I have decided to revisit my old darling for an update (to clear the cobwebs).
I have realised that instead of blogging my views and rants, I had transition to an easier alternative: Facebook. 60% of the time spent on my lappy was dedicated to FB. All thanks to my not-so-cutting-edge-graphics card on the mac, gaming was limited to a measly occasional wahjong and some FB shenanigans (FB again!)
Why the transition? It’s simple. Simplicity! I can summarise my thoughts and feelings with just a few words, i get more views thru FB and there’s more interactivity! For wordpress, i normally would collate a few thoughts and experiences before i can blog about it. Too little makes my post a hasty job, too long makes me look like a book writer.
I’ve come to realised something, evolution has made mankind lazy and become convenient bastards. Here’s why:
(Chronologically arranged)
1. When people first started out to write about their experiences and expressions, they draw. Language was still non-existent and thus drawing was the only way to be heard (or rather, seen)
2. Language was invented. People started to write scores of books and journals depicting their thoughts. Very rudimentary but in vast quantities. Normally a journal will be written formally, with all the correct spellings and articulations. (see journals from the middle-ages written by scholars on various subjects)
3. Diaries come into place when the average jack can read and write and the availability of paper and writing instruments. Still very neat and formal, but less formal than the scholars. Diaries have become personal; from the daily rantings to major events that happened to the author.
4. As humans gets more educated, diaries have become less formal and a very personal thing. Formal writing will go to books and essays. Diaries are the author’s dirty laundry.
5. Ah… computers. This stuff made writing much more fun with typing. Some people started to type out their diaries and store them. (Saves paper and ink at the expense of electricity. Humans. Tsk)
6. Then blogging came. Humans are so so so attracted to the idea of voyeurism. That’s why gossips and tabloids sells. SOME people like being peeped at and thus, blogging was the platform for them to flash their life to the world wide web. Diaries are no longer personal anymore
7. Facebook/twitter. They simplified diaries to just a few sentences and the level of voyeurism has increased dramatically. Friends/enemies will be able to know what the person is feeling about just by searching their names.
8. The future: What lies infront of us? If you can see the pattern, humans are using lesser words to express themselves. So i guess in the near future (when we croak and our children walks this earth), diaries will be like this:
Ahkuei (16 Jan 2112):QOR347789.
What is QOR3477i89? In the future, all expressions will be summarized into codes and everyone will have the code book. So, Q3477i89 will prolly be like this:
QOR = I am so fucking angry right now that i can murder someone and drink their blood!!!
3477 = My boss just told me to work overtime because the deal that just came in was full of incomplete details. Now i will have to stay in the office to sort out all the details and hand over to him.
i89 = sorry guys i won’t be able to make it to the drinking session. Apologies!
Prolly my grand grand kids will have to attend a special school JUST TO MEMORIZE ALL THE CODES IN THAT BOOK!
