Remember when blogs were the wave of the future and everyone was doing it?

Now its all about twitter... or as my boss puts it: "tweater". (I don't think she's ever been on it.)

Blogs are of the past.

Let's be honest, I don't even blog anymore. Except when I'm bored, and there's nothing on TV, and I've got writers block with my book, and I'm sick of playing mario, and I don't have any new books to read, and sitting and staring at the wall doesn't sound too appealing.

Even then, I usually don't blog.

Of course I'm not on twitter either....

We put so much of ourselves out there for the world to read. Our opinions, our random thoughts, those horrible pictures you would have ripped up and thrown in the trash if it weren't for digital cameras...

And is anyone really listening?

Well in this case... no.

Because I blog about once a year. And I'm pretty sure I skipped one.

In other cases though, people do listen. Some random celebrity has more people listening to them on twitter than CNN. And is that really a bad thing? Is twitter how we should get our news? Random headlines steering our opinions in one direction or another? So much talk has been happening about politics, healthcare in particular. People are so passionate in their opinions. They strongly believe they know what is right and anyone who disagrees with them, is well... stupid. Except how much do we really know? None of us are experts in anything. We know little handfuls of information passed along to us by super-convenient means. We get our politics next to the color of shirt Britney Spears was wearing and what that random person we knew in high school ate for breakfast. We get just enough to think we know everything.

It's like going out to eat Thai food and having phad thai. It's a perfectly fine dish, but it's hardly a sum of thai food. There is so many more (and better) options to eat that we just don't ever bother to learn. We get our taste and make our opinion.

And we believe what we're told. We believe what we see on TV. No, not everything we see on TV, but our "trusted" sources. For some it's Fox. For others it's CNN. (For me, it's the Daily Show.) Whatever one we trust, it's the one we count on to "tell us the truth". The rest of course lie repeatedly, but not our trusted source. We forget that everything has a slant. Everyone has a motive. Maybe it's money, maybe it's greed, maybe they're honestly trying to do the right thing, and maybe, they're secretly making us think like them to make us fall in line for the government's secret plan to turn us all into trapped slaves/robots circa 1984.

My point is... well I don't have a point. Luckily for me, this is a blog that no one reads. Except for this awesome lady I know in Alberta. And I'm pretty sure she finally gave up on me too.

I just miss the days of newspapers, and content, and ethical journalism where news organizations still had standards and at least tried to report the news without a bias.

Back when blogs were just the wave of the future...