-Ha, I always read that like a trick question!
"You're fb post concerned me. Just want to know my boy is good."
-No... Truth... This world isn't home... so my social media thing is a hopeful way to disconnect from this crazy planet and create my own world
"Interesting. Wanna have a sit down?"
-ha think I've finally lost it?
"Maybe you've found it."
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If we don't like our job, we have the freedom to change it.
If we don't like our body, energy, eye sight, clothes, car, house, partner, pet, _______, we have the freedom to change it.
Obviously, not all changes are easy and some are harder than others, but we have free will and can change if choose to and make every effort to.
What if we don't like the information that comes to us?
What if we don't like what we see in this particular "reality?"
Can we change our actual reality?
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For me, Facebook was about sharing a story, try to be useful, share music and books and podcasts... But I feel a little bitter-sweet about it all.
I wanted to be completely invisible, just operate behind the scenes, trying to make something cool happen. I wanted to have an idea, whisper it to someone and let them have the success. So this is just a mini step, searching to become invisible again.
I was a pretty naive, introverted guy... I don't like the things I've learned on social media.
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Facebook was designed to connect us... Has it?
(Ironically, you're probably reading this via a link I just shared on social media).
I have x number of friends on Facebook, yet when I go to the mall, I see people I'm "friends with," avoiding eye contact, staring at their phones and walking past.
Think it's a coincidence we have so many socially awkward people around?
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I see news stories apps/links covering things that aren't news.
Hollywood is not news. Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlyn is not newsworthy. Kanye West is not newsworthy.
Then the things that are newsworthy are manipulated and snow ball into x more stories that arent newsworthy.
Would the riots have been the same without social media?
It's a distraction from news, just as the phone is a distraction from life. We look down, not up. We create false connections over electrical devices, not actual human contact.
"Another boy dead over Heroin overdose," is the news headline, but that's not the story. The news as we now know it sells fear, not stories.
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Then the things that are newsworthy are manipulated and snow ball into x more stories that arent newsworthy.
Would the riots have been the same without social media?
It's a distraction from news, just as the phone is a distraction from life. We look down, not up. We create false connections over electrical devices, not actual human contact.
"Another boy dead over Heroin overdose," is the news headline, but that's not the story. The news as we now know it sells fear, not stories.
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I see Facebook and I see the ego of us, creating a particular picture that we want everyone to think of us.
And it's not reality.
Facebook has created High School, Part 2, but here you're free to recreate however you like.
And it's still not reality.
Everything we eat, we can think "is this helping me or hurting me?"
But we don't do that with our eyes/minds. Scrolling through Facebook, very few posts offer "help," or anything positive to help us build positive momentum in our lives. I see too many pains, too many posts, links, pics that are really online bullying, or chest pounding "Look at me!"
Did I get 10+ likes?? Success!!!!!
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I was at a restaurant and just glancing around... everyone had company at their table, yet had their phones right there. A text or phone call came through or whatever app notified them of something incredibly important, and their mind left the table and headed off into the iWorld...
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I was at another function recently... around 100 people or so stopped by to say hi and talk about the reason I was in their area. We spoke about fitness and working out, which lead to pains and injuries or excuses and procrastination. As x amount of people came through, I stopped seeing them as they were in the physical form, in front of me.
They became the same... not in a bitter "you're all the same," type thought but in a "WE're all the same," type thought.
We all have the exact same needs yet we think and act so different.
Deep down we need water, nutrition, sunlight, human touch, movement, brain stimulation and other very primal needs.
Yet over the last 20-30 years, we've changed and headed into a new direction of isolation. We're becoming more anti social in this social media world.
Customer service is no longer serving the customer. It's just banging out x amount of files per day. You're not cared for because now, you're a number, you're notification on an app. It's become a fast food society.
We don't have to learn, because the answers are at our finger tips.
We're never alone because... well, right t our finger tips is 1000 conversations we can now interact with...
But none of it is real.
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But we don't do that with our eyes/minds. Scrolling through Facebook, very few posts offer "help," or anything positive to help us build positive momentum in our lives. I see too many pains, too many posts, links, pics that are really online bullying, or chest pounding "Look at me!"
Did I get 10+ likes?? Success!!!!!
---
I was at a restaurant and just glancing around... everyone had company at their table, yet had their phones right there. A text or phone call came through or whatever app notified them of something incredibly important, and their mind left the table and headed off into the iWorld...
---
I was at another function recently... around 100 people or so stopped by to say hi and talk about the reason I was in their area. We spoke about fitness and working out, which lead to pains and injuries or excuses and procrastination. As x amount of people came through, I stopped seeing them as they were in the physical form, in front of me.
They became the same... not in a bitter "you're all the same," type thought but in a "WE're all the same," type thought.
We all have the exact same needs yet we think and act so different.
Deep down we need water, nutrition, sunlight, human touch, movement, brain stimulation and other very primal needs.
Yet over the last 20-30 years, we've changed and headed into a new direction of isolation. We're becoming more anti social in this social media world.
Customer service is no longer serving the customer. It's just banging out x amount of files per day. You're not cared for because now, you're a number, you're notification on an app. It's become a fast food society.
We don't have to learn, because the answers are at our finger tips.
We're never alone because... well, right t our finger tips is 1000 conversations we can now interact with...
But none of it is real.
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This entire world we operate within is completely unnatural for us. We've boxed ourselves into games of "house," and "adult," and "life," with rules that our brains and hearts and souls weren't really meant to understand fully.
The system says "you need a degree..."
And then make $30,000/year with that 4 year degree...
And then that job is forcing you to get a masters within 2-4 years...
And add another $20,000-$30,000 in debt on top of the $100,000+ you've already accumulated...
And now you're 27 and wanting to get married, buy a house and have kids...
So thats another chunk of change, handcuffing you to a job that completely under pays you and you're starting to see "oh shit, if I'm lucky my school loan will be paid off by the time I'm 39."
How many teachers can relate to that scenario? Yet here we are, willingly playing these games that we didn't sign up for because.... everyone's doing it!
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So I posted:
If you're interested in personal training or hanging out:
my number is 440-983-7783
email: bickeljason409@gmail.com
As for these blogs, I'll continue to write but wont be sharing via social media. There's a link on the right to subscribe, if you like.
As for marketing for business, Im fine with not using social media... I want to found naturally, for better or worse, not because I posted some dumbass ad at the right moment. Find me because you heard I'm good, not because I'm here.
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The song below is one I find myself humming daily... The story, the movie, the soundtrack has been with me a long time and moves me very much. The song means, to me, literally what hes singing. "society, crazy indeed, hope you're not lonely, without me."
My personal opinion, there's something really beautiful to me in going hard, pouring your heart into every single thing you touch, your whole life... just give and give and give and give more and leave it all out there, with nothing in the tank...
then gone, like a shooting star.
So remember kids, "it's better to burn out than fade away."
Can you tell I start off sober then slip into weirdness and music analogies?
The system says "you need a degree..."
And then make $30,000/year with that 4 year degree...
And then that job is forcing you to get a masters within 2-4 years...
And add another $20,000-$30,000 in debt on top of the $100,000+ you've already accumulated...
And now you're 27 and wanting to get married, buy a house and have kids...
So thats another chunk of change, handcuffing you to a job that completely under pays you and you're starting to see "oh shit, if I'm lucky my school loan will be paid off by the time I'm 39."
How many teachers can relate to that scenario? Yet here we are, willingly playing these games that we didn't sign up for because.... everyone's doing it!
---
So I posted:
All social media accounts will be down soon. Looking to unplug and disconnect from the ego/mask and drama drug we've grown up addicted to.
Hung into them for this long for business reasons and to share... But scrolling feeds, it's really just loaded w shit I don't care to read. Shit talk, pain, negativity, etc. I'd read it and it would bring me down. My wife mentions things on the news, and it's all news to me... Better or worse, I want to ignorant to the outside world... I don't want to be effected anymore by the craziness that's reported. I know human instincts and capabilities, I don't need to read it/see it and then feel it.
The joy was reading people's successes and seeing pics of friends and their families, showing pics of my girls and life... those friendships should be live and in person. Show me your pics when we see each other, tell me your stories at happy hour.
Hung into them for this long for business reasons and to share... But scrolling feeds, it's really just loaded w shit I don't care to read. Shit talk, pain, negativity, etc. I'd read it and it would bring me down. My wife mentions things on the news, and it's all news to me... Better or worse, I want to ignorant to the outside world... I don't want to be effected anymore by the craziness that's reported. I know human instincts and capabilities, I don't need to read it/see it and then feel it.
The joy was reading people's successes and seeing pics of friends and their families, showing pics of my girls and life... those friendships should be live and in person. Show me your pics when we see each other, tell me your stories at happy hour.
If you've enjoyed the entries in the link, hit it and subscribe. When my flip phone arrives, that'll be it for this drug (Facebook - you think it connected us, I think it did the opposite)
---If you're interested in personal training or hanging out:
my number is 440-983-7783
email: bickeljason409@gmail.com
As for these blogs, I'll continue to write but wont be sharing via social media. There's a link on the right to subscribe, if you like.
As for marketing for business, Im fine with not using social media... I want to found naturally, for better or worse, not because I posted some dumbass ad at the right moment. Find me because you heard I'm good, not because I'm here.
---
The song below is one I find myself humming daily... The story, the movie, the soundtrack has been with me a long time and moves me very much. The song means, to me, literally what hes singing. "society, crazy indeed, hope you're not lonely, without me."
My personal opinion, there's something really beautiful to me in going hard, pouring your heart into every single thing you touch, your whole life... just give and give and give and give more and leave it all out there, with nothing in the tank...
then gone, like a shooting star.
So remember kids, "it's better to burn out than fade away."
Can you tell I start off sober then slip into weirdness and music analogies?
