Hello World!

First post…. feeling a bit jittery….. and then I ask myself, “why!?”. You see, back in the good old days when I was a teenage high schooler, I used to operate my own website. This was a pretty “cool” thing to do back in the day and not many people knew how to (or cared enough to) make their own website. The website was mostly about me, myself & I, coz ….why not, right?

Then came along hi5, MySpace and finally, Facebook, and suddenly everyone, kinda, sorta, had their own webpage. Not only that, it cost nothing, had no hosting limits and allowed you to connect with others more in-depth, something that most websites at the time didn’t do very well.

After some time, my website, which I hosted on Geocities became irrelevant, and in 2009 got taken down along with the rest of the Geocities sites when the service closed down. So, social media ruled the day and that was that….. or was it?

Social media in 2021 has lost its shine. Far from being a medium to simply communicate, it’s now being used to shape opinions, win elections and harvest personal information for profit. All moral values, any iota of decency has been abandoned in exchange for the promise of money and power…. Ugh!

So, I am leaving behind the mangled, tangled mess that is social media, never to return, and retreating to the calm and quiet of my own website, for the 2nd time in the same lifetime. As with the website from my teenage years, I am quite certain that no one will visit this site, and no one would be interested in my rambling opinions about this, that or the other. And that brings me back to where I started, why feel jittery, when no one’s reading anyway…. ha!