Inauguration

OK so this is my very first blog post.

Ever.

Its kind of freaking me out a bit. The idea that people are going to be reading this, and marking me on it is more than a little disconcerting. I prefer regular formal assignments, void of any humour or colloquialism, that you drop in a box. No real interaction or judgment on you particularly, just whats on a page. Cold and impersonal thank you very much. Where as on here I have to worry about an image; an identity. And its real worry too. My main aim is to avoid seeming pretentious, which is ridiculous because everything has a pretense, especially when you have a chance to review what your producing. Like on here.

It's hard to create an accurate portrayal of yourself over net. Its all construction. I was neuroticising over what goes where-colour, pictures, font- for over an hour. All for this Identity, because once you jump on the web people only know you by what you tell them. And usually I don't tell them anything. My facebook is as basic and as private as you can get, and I'm only 'friends' with people I already know. Which still portrays an image. I guess its a reaction to all those facebook/myspace pages of narcissistic youth, with their self-taken semi-naked pictures with screen names like 'sExC gUrL' ect, which make me cringe in embarrassment. I did have a link to an example of one of these 'identities' but I felt guilty for exploiting her any more than what she has already done, so I've taken it down.

So this is my online 'self'. I hope I don't make you cringe.