I want to love social networks. I have a myspace account, but I never-ever use it, and secretly hope that Tom will delete it someday. I have a facebook account, and rarely use it, except when I respond to e-mails telling me that I have an invitation to be a rock star or poke someone or join a man-club–all things that I ignore because I don’t understand them. However, I am slowly getting connected with old friends that I would love to keep in touch with…
What then, is the big hang up? Pictures. I am afraid (literally) that I don’t have enough pictures to post on my social network. I have like three pictures of myself, and they’re all taken from my computer–too close with a hazy blue and yellow palette. I don’t have any American Eagle-commercial pictures of my friends and I all smiling and running across a field, or playing on the beach, or hanging out in a club.
So what would I put on a social network? Words? A blog? Will people really read it? Isnt’ the multimedia what people are looking for? Will I embarrass myself if the picture in my profile remains the same for more than 3 months? Will others be embarrassed for me? Or even worse, will I be showing my friends that my life is less interesting than theirs? Maybe I should just suck it up and start taking pictures of me gardening, me working on my scooter, me doing the dishes, me reading a book–I’ll show them–I’m interesting too!
Stay tuned for more installments of why I’m no good at social networks.
