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People don’t want to know as much about you as you think they do. This may come as a shock, since you spend a whole lot of time preparing every last detail of your social network profile to superfluously describe every facet of your being, but the reality is no one reads every word. They skim them, just like they skim your photos, your updates, your writings. Just like they skim your life.

The people you know and care about are the speed readers of your life. Like old commercials from the 80s, they’re sitting at a kitchen table with you opened in front of them while they run their fingers along your edges as quickly as possible, absorbing only the most important, most relevant parts. They don’t care what musings and favorite quotes you have plastered across your Facebook profile. What they see is your name, your location, your status, your ‘popularity’. What they see is all they want from you ever.

But still. Don’t let anything stop you from wearing your heart on the Internet. Someone is bound to care, someday.

~ by adneo on Saturday, May 10, 2008.