Hi readership, it’s Xela, and I’m back! 😛 I’m going to consolidate my creative / social media energy back into this blog rather than traditional social media.
I complained back in 2009 that the emergence short form posts and meme culture that’s come to dominate social media culture has detrimental effects on our creative expression, authenticity, and depth in engagement. In more psychiatric terms, the fast dopamine of a like/hot take, has hijacked what could have been a slower/more satisfying creative outlet and connection of longer-form content.
Not that all has been bad; certainly we’ve gone from a fraction of the world, to nearly everybody online now, and we’ve brought all of our human problems as part of this evolution. But the decline of high dopamine creativity must be combatted, at least for me. I want more ramblingz~! J/k. sorta.
My reasons for not posting have been rather mundane, yet personal. In no particular order:
- Creative energy fatigue
- Daunting backlog of posts
- Writer’s block, social (media) anxiety
- Unsure of why I’m posting/audience
- Alternative outlets exist with lower threshold (and lower return?)
- Self-censorship
These have always been concerns, and likely always will be. So that shouldn’t stop me 😛 — rather, I want to make extra effort to turn that around.
The future, again
I seem to do this every five years or so as I rechristen this blog with new purpose. Right now, as I’m building the future, I most certainly want my online presence to keep up.
So, here we go again! Welcome back~ 🥰