For what it is worth...

My thoughts on Facebook

Enough is enough. I am not putting up a profile on Facebook. I already tried MySpace, and it made me feel like I was in high school all over again, with people only interested in how many friends they had, not in the quality of their friendships. And besides, how well can you really get to know someone with only digital communication? People can and do lie all of the time to your face, why would it be any better, if not much worse, if you only knew someone’s profile? What motivation do people have to tell the truth if the goal is to have as many friends as possible? Anyway, I deleted my MySpace profile after a month or so of dissatisfaction. Now I do have two blogs and a LinkedIn profile. The LinkedIn profile is purely for professional purposes. I also have three e-mail addresses (five if you count the two addresses I have for work). This seems like more than enough for me. I have a hard time keeping my blogs and profile up to date as it is. And the more I hear about employer’s searching for people’s profiles online, the only profile I want to present is the professional me. My personal blog does not contain personal info about me either, though my blog on green living does (though it is not a controversial subject). People need to concentrate on their real relationships with people they see everyday, like their family, co-workers, significant other, and the people on the bus. If we all spent more time cultivating those, maybe we would not feel the need to cultivate relationships with people over the Internet.

My thoughts on doughnuts

This can really apply to all junk food. If I eat something that I know is bad for me, like doughnuts, then I will spend far more time regretting the act of eating the donut then the time I will spend actually enjoying the donut. I will ruminate all day when I eat something I know to be bad for me. I think that we should view our bodies like the temples that they are and start treating them well. We only (as far as we know) get one shot at life and one body to live this life in.