So, like... I'm here!  Now what?

This whole "social networkin" thing is pretty fascinating to me... It's fun to see that I'm no the only one feeling lonely in an ever larger world.  More people around, less to talk about.  Are our interests getting to be that specific?  Like finicky cats in a world of every type of information we could want, now we'll only eat a certain brand of catfood.

It's an odd thing, really, it takes so much to form a 'connection' with people these days...or is it just me?  I've tried the whole "talk to everyone like they're your best friend" thing, but that just sorta gets me a lot of odd looks and glances.  Seems to go backwards rather forwards.

So yeah, another network!  I'm ready! What now?

Every time I get to a new site, I have to deal with my own little eternal dilemma: how to fill out my profile.  What's this "About me:" section?  I don't even know who I am, or who I wanna be, let alone being able to define myself in a few...well, in any number of paragraphs, actually.  I don't really see how others do it.

For me, as soon as I type anything in an "about me" section, I start to doubt it.  Is that really an accurate description?  Does that get any part of "me" communicated?   Drinking just makes it worse.

I look around at other's profiles, and some of them really seem to hav eit goin' on!  There's poetry and prose, romantic descriptions of loves and lives...I think it's all really cool, but... as soon as I try something like that? i just feel like I'm copying.  Maybe I'm just psychin' myself out.

I look at profiles of people I know, and wow, do they seem to think of themselves in a completely different light than i see them.  This one chick thinks she's all "badass chick" and stuff, haha, so she's all mean and attitude on her myspace.  But in real life? She' sthe one refilling everyone's drinks, making jokes, listening, and just all around caring.  So where's teh disconnect?  Who's acting what?  Ack, even as I type this, i wanna delete it.

So, this makes me wonder, "Are all these social networking sites, and online personas really  healthy?  Does forcing ouselves to define what it means to be 'me' really help anything?  Buddhism got a lot to say about selves, and the defining o'them.  The more somebody gets pushed to a specific idea of who "they" are, they'll start to act like it's really them, and they'll get stuck.

So I dunno, I think I'll leave my "about me" pretty sparse... Maybe some day I'll think of something that communicates some part of me on some sort of level, (even if it just looks like gibberish), and i'll put it up.  Prolly not, though.  less to live up to ;)