Audiences

I really think people should check who other people's social audiences are before they jump to conclusions based on what they're assumptions are. I wouldn't be talking on a blog if it wasn't a general thing that i hope everyone understands.

people can follow me on twitter, read my blogs, and read my facebook updates and what not but they can't seem to realize that i have three different audiences and i don't want to get into the topic of understanding about privacy and how eventually everyone finds out about the things i post whether or not i choose to post it as private or public.

blogs: a place where i can connect to personal friends and talk about my interests and a place where strangers can read and judge me based on what they only know from the single post that they've read about me

facebook: i only add those who i've met and that's the bottom line, this includes supervisors, professors, and old teachers who i really look up to as well as networks and companies and friends who all share in the same vision as me to speak on what's right and share our similar opinions or opposing opinions but discussed in a way where both of us can just laugh about it or get something out of it.

twitter: is still a place where i don't take things seriously cuz i mainly use it for the dance community but it's really mainly for the mass amount of people who i know that just complains about every little single thing when they have the chance. yes it is a miniblog, i get it. so it's not surprising that almost all the ones who use twitter a lot also has a tumblr and they do the same there. no big surprise.

so no, i can't take the twitter community too seriously especially since my audience there are mostly those who are younger than me and the things they share sometimes are really not of my interest, however, i hope that since they don't have a facebook, that this was still my connection to how they're doing... and that's the main reason why i use twitter. also with my followers, i'd like to update them on news about what's going on with the community and the same happens with facebook. it's never a harm to share my resources and connections but oh how easy it is to just disconnect with some of them when they start annoying me. =) why? cuz i still have their phone numbers and text/phone call is always the more personal way to connect to others if i truly cared.

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ps. to those who think that others can understand you better if they follow you on twitter or tumblr simply by reading your one sentence views on life and what's going on around you, are you really serious? if you stepped out of your shoes to look at yourself and see the painting of the type of person you're painting on the web, are you really that surprised that people aren't taking you seriously and that you're losing friends left and right, finding yourself alone and bored online doing nothing but texting or messaging twitter that you're up and not being able to sleep?

why is it that nobody messages you sometimes when you're saying that you're awake and you don't know why you can't sleep? i can't say that this may happen to most of the people out there but it's always a thought whether or not people actually cared to even read some of these updates.

the ultimate concern for those who aren't even involved with social networks according to data analysis in sociology: they don't join social networks because they worry that nobody cares enough to read or check on their updates :) true story.



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sorry back to the topic of audiences...

before i question why someone would update such a thing on their social networks and start ridiculing that they post such narcissistic and ungrateful updates, i stop for a quick second and imagine...

"maybe all of their followers are in high school"
"maybe all of their friends are club heads like they are, that's why they say such degrading things and holler through their updates as if they really do get any"
"maybe all of their followers are dancers" - usually the case of directors so i take their posts more seriously

the things i say on facebook are open to more than 1000 friends including again professors, supervisors, managers, and respected people with professions, families, careers, and long term goals--so anything said there is worth more to me than what is said on twitter.

i'm slowly seeing those were once in high school ease away from myspace and twitter only to use more of facebook, so how can i be really convinced that i should really take anything on twitter seriously or even, care to use it.

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what motivates me to write these types of blogs are the types of things people say on twitter. it makes no sense to me what their definition of "bad" or "cool" is and rather than choosing to lower myself to understand their ways or show them the attention that they want, i sometimes just result in just letting myself do the out of sight-out of mind thing.

time to play the delete/unfollow/block game :)