It's all about me.
For almost 5 years I updated this blog every day. I had opinions on everything from trash to soap , and couldn't wait to get to my computer to type-in a rant. At some point, I realized that the world wasn't changing, and in fact, it was steadily growing worse, and my thoughts and ideas were more social anathema than socially acceptable. So I shut up. Then, along came Facebook and Twitter. So-called Social Media sites that seem to have settled into a realm somewhere between corporate marketing and personal promotion. Companies use it to promote television shows and products and people use it to tell us about all the grand things they do with their lives - presumably without us, or else why would they need to broadcast it to the Internet? After all, I thought most people hated those Christmas cards with the "Yearly Update" letter that told us about Junior's baby teeth or Aunt Selma's sciatica. What makes a daily Internet update more pala...