A New Kind of Goal.

I have yet to create my second or third blogs, but it is decided that I most likely will.

However, this post would have been on this blog anyway.

I decided today as I was driving to Meijer to pick up some tennis balls for my drier that I'm adding a Kindof Goal to my list.  I am quitting social networking sites.

*Horrified Gasp*

But why Lee?  Why would you commit such a terrible, self-depriving act?  Why would you torment yourself so cruelly, so barbarously?

Because social networking sites suck.

For hours on end, I will sit in front of the computer screen attempting to find a way to entertain myself using social networking sites.  Why do I do this?  Because they exist, and they're supposed to be entertaining.  They're supposed to occupy people's time and people are supposed to enjoy that, but I never have.  I hate them.  They bore the fuck out of me.  If anyone pays attention to my social networking status updates, they'll know that I've posted at least three or four of them explaining how myspace/facebook has utterly failed in entertaining me, and does this daily.

But somehow, even with my intense hatred for them, I manage to lose my life to them, so I'm quitting all together.

See, a lot of times I'll be running through the Internet, trying to think of fun, Internet related things to do, because I know that I used to enjoy doing them, but whenever I'm on the computer, I'll have mybook or facespace open and numbly slide back to them, stare at the screen for a bit, and then shut down my brain entirely from boredom.  I cease even attempting to rid myself of boredom because of social networking sites -- I don't know why, don't ask me that, but I do, so I'm done with them.

I know the Internet can be fun.  It always used to be before I spent all of my time on myfacespacebook, and I am pledging the remainder of my life to rediscovering that fun.

I'm not tossing out twitter, though, because that can be useful, and I may comment a few status updates or something on the facemybookspace every once in a while.  This is just more of a "get rid of the terribleness of those sites from my life" goal.  Not a "destroy the good along with it" goal.