In the meanwhile I flirted with the evil powers of Facebook...well it is good and works well if you have too much time in your hand, really live the digital village by keeping contact with people all over the world, or have a business. For which I think Facebook is the perfect platform to promote you these days. I have a “business” as well, yet I am inclined to not follow the Facebook path.
Well first
off, information and pictures I upload are finally owned by FB and the
CIA/FBI/NSA.... I can still control what I upload, but it is easy to create a
profile about a single person in no time. This is somehow scary.
Second by
following friends and their useless posts about fail compilations, food they
had and other trivia, I lost invaluable time.
Third this horrible
habit to post one liners about one’s mood and hoping for a reaction did not
really work for me. 80% of my posts turned out to be SPAM of such kind.
FB feels
like a possible TV replacement for my and the following generation. Simple to
digest messages and tailored to my interest. Just stay in the comfort zone.
In the last
weeks I monitored my FB behaviour and major interests, which turned out to be
the subscription to some of the finest collections of pictures of hot rods,
tattoos and other interesting things. Actually, information I could get outside
FB as well. Perhaps with these frequent updates, but one has to digest the
stuff properly anyway.
The
disadvantages simple outweigh the advantages – I reduced my use of Facebook and
restrict it to the use of messages to those people who hate emails....
Back to
blogging again.
One might
ask why I blog at all with the main audience (not the market) being in the US
and with 6 followers in total...and the fact that I spend most of my time
sitting in front of a monitor anyways.
Well, the blog is journal to keep track of progress on my “art skills”.
I changed my artistic goals in becoming better in Illustration and (Japanese inspired) tattooing.
My blog will be the place to post my findings to spark the interest of people with similar interests.
Perhaps I can make a mark in the world and some people can learn from my ideas/works as I learned from the works of others.
Well, the blog is journal to keep track of progress on my “art skills”.
I changed my artistic goals in becoming better in Illustration and (Japanese inspired) tattooing.
My blog will be the place to post my findings to spark the interest of people with similar interests.
Perhaps I can make a mark in the world and some people can learn from my ideas/works as I learned from the works of others.
