Facebook’s timeline made me realise, that the more public and open the platform has become over the years, the less I have used it for reflection. I used to report about both sad and happy times, about the struggles during projects, not just the end results.
Now Facebook is like a social CV - which means you only share the good and inoffensive bits.
It’s not a big problem, and I don’t wish for Facebook to necessarily change. I just need to switch things around. My blog used to be a broadcasting tool - I used it to tell the world about something - to openly reflect or document processes - but it became too public. Now when Facebook (and Twitter, but it has always been) is too public, I’ll start a blog again for the more personal stuff. As Ben said, “no one reads blogs anymore” - perfect.
Now I don’t have to worry, because people will actively have to search this stuff out - something that people who care about me and what I do hopefully will.
So here’s to a new blog.
