Content overload and why you should be reading my blog, like now.

Hello fellow interwebs user! Chances are that we have connected on some sort of a social media platform, be it Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or maybe another mystery network that I haven’t joined yet, but exists in the future and wouldn’t that be weird? It would be like I’m speaking to you from the past; a time when those three social networks ruled the social media space and long before the invention of the particle transporter and the cure for cancer and moon cities and stuff.

Chances are that you aren’t going to read every word I write, so the ones that you do read better be good. Believe me, I understand. Because of my balls to the wall involvement in social media channels, I am constantly bombarded with links, blog posts, pictures of people’s pets, engagement announcements, and invitations to parties that I will never go to. I’m sure you are too because you’re here and we’re friends, so I’ll make this short and sweet: I’m getting pretty sick of it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure that your parents love that you posted pictures of your new apartment on Facebook, and they probably also worry about you when you post an ambiguous emotional status update about how you “just can’t trust anyone anymore,” but I’m not your parents and I don’t. I refer to my current mind-state as “Content Overload.” It’s when you can’t sift through all of the crap to get to the gems that are buried beneath the rubble of our overly connected, yet strangely impersonal society.

So here’s what I’m NOT going to do with this blog: I’m not going to use it as a pity party for me. I have actually taken a ‘liking’ to liking people’s Facebook statuses when they post something tragic about how the guy that they have been dating isn’t picking up their phone calls after 5 years of blah blah blah. I’m also not going to innundate you with constant lame details about my life. It’s not all that interesting. Trust me. I watch it 24 hours a day and if MTV were going to film a reality show about me they would have contacted me at 21, not 25.

What I WILL use this blog for is sharing content that I think is both useful and entertaining. I am blessed to work in a space where innovation is a part of everyday life, and while knowledge is not hard to search for, sometimes it can be hard to find. So I hope that you enjoy my blog and love it and share it and pet it and where is my copy of Tommy Boy and why haven’t I watched that movie in over a year?

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