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The Current State of Online Journals

I sometimes wonder why people actually write in their online journals. It’s not like they really have anything to say. Nothing to offer to the general public. Yes, yes, I know that they’re not trying to become the next featured member of Xanga or whatever, but still. Some people just write loads of crap onto their journals, consisting of nothing more than one sentence nonsense. Some classics:

Yes, those are whole entries. Strangely enough, his friends continue to encourage him, by commenting and giving him eProps. I don’t know what it is about eProps, but apparently, to some hardcore Xanga users, they’re worth more than gold. Each comment will invariably have two eProps tagging along with it, as though the comment were actually worth something.

And is one eProp worth any less than two? When was the last time anybody has given a single eProp? When was the last time anyone has even written an entry that’s deserving of a double eProp, which, according to Xanga, would be for “exceptional content”?

Who cares what mood you’re in? Who cares what music you’re listening to? If it were really important, then they could be easily integrated into your entry as normal sentences, and not as:

Current mood: Ecstatic!

Current music: Barbie Girl, by Aqua.

Of course, there needs to be gratuitous amounts of smiley faces and other stuff to back up the fact that this person’s current mood is, in fact, what they say it is.

Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I demand more than just a log of what exactly happened to you that day. After all, that is what a journal is for, I suppose. But it would be much nicer if all of you were to show the world that you’re not just a robot that goes on doing stupid stuff and doesn’t think at all. Please, just put some thought into what you write, write about what you’re thinking, what’s intrigued you during the course of today. Everybody has problems. Everybody goes to work, goes to class, goes to parties, sleeps all day, thinks that girl is hot, and wants that car. Don’t you have any other thoughts in your head? Don’t you ever notice that nobody really cares about the elections anymore, because it’s just a matter of voting for one rich guy over another? Don’t you ever notice that people waste a lot of water brushing their teeth, by leaving the faucet on at full blast the whole time?

But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe that’s all that goes on in their heads. Maybe they’ve already spilled their guts, showed the world what it’s like to be so-and-so. Maybe I’ve been correct all this time, sarcastically calling people as a whole lemmings.

I hope I’m correct in assuming that there is some sort of thought process that goes on in each and every one of your brains when external stimuli triggers your senses. I hope that life for most of you is not just a series of reactions upon reactions to the same, mundane events that happen in your lives. Or there will be a very dreary future for all of us.