Once, many years ago, a friend of mine (you know who you are) offered me a diet coke, to which I shrank back in revulsion and offered that I would rather be... well let's just say I said that I'd rather be terribly maimed by a member of Florida fauna... than drink diet soda.
Fast forward quite a few years later to which that same friend's jaw dropped when he watched me order a diet soda in a restaurant. I nodded. Not only had my tastes changed, I could no longer drink regular soda. Hyperbole and pride aside, I just couldn't.
Well with social networking and blogs I found myself, unbeknownst to me, in the same exact waters. I just couldn't see how I would ever use either thing. The novelty of "oh-wow-I-can-talk-to-strangers-around-the-world" had already faded long before the invention of either technology.
Yeah, I know. This is a blog.
So, I'm going back on a lot of diatribe here. A lot of diatribe. I am officially offering up my soul to social networking and the aging blogosphere. For many years I have single-handedly declared that I would never use them. Not that I had taken issue with them as a whole; I just couldn't think of a reason why I would ever use either platform. So the first question would be:
Who cares?
That of course would be anyone who wanted to say, "I told you so." The second question (mainly for those folks would care about the first question) would be:
Why?
For the most part I want to connect with friends and family who, throughout the years, have moved away. Or have started families. Or both.
So am I going to be a daily blogger? No. Will I use this to share longer style posts that won't fit in social media? Yes. Just little posts between my friends, family, and I. Plus the rest of the world.
Who knows, I just might throw in tidbits on programming, PC gaming, writing, and robotics as well.
Weird. Perhaps Chuck Norris was right when he said that there was a harbinger at hand of a thousand years of darkness, and he just mistook it for this election cycle. Maybe the tremor he felt was from the fact that Scott was now blogging. And drinking diet soda.
