With the popularity of Twitter and ’status update’ messages on email/social sites, people are definitely not lacking ways to stay updated on each other’s lives. However, what may be lacking is quality conversations and info-exchanges between friends online. For example, Twitter limits your “thoughts” to 140 characters and Facebook’s “wall” caps you out at 1,000 characters. Now, I’m not hating on character limits– there is merit in limits:
1) It encourages people to have more well-thought out, concisely written blurbs and sentences
2) The server won’t be as likely to crash by curbing the blabbing tendencies of people who speak/type in a stream-of-consciousness fashion ;)
So I’ve been thinking a lot about how to improve info-sharing online amongst my friends. Here are the main issues:
• Not all of my friends have blogs
• If they have a blog, it’s not meant for the public due to personal content
• I don’t remember to check everyone’s blog all the time (or don’t have time to. I barely write on my own…)
• My friends don’t remember to check this blog (lack of time, or because I don’t post that often)
• It’s kind of annoying to have to send links via email if I have something worth sharing (and what if someone gets left off the email list accidentally?! Oh the anxieties)
To address these issues, I’ve decided that today will be a momentous day for this blog: I’m turning it into an open source forum. The goal is to have an online hub where any friend can post and share thoughts/events/tidbits. After all, a lot of my posts are inspired by conversations with friends and ideas they’ve shared with me. Why not just invite them to become the authors?! Readers can hear it straight from the source!
So friends, if you would like to have authorship on this blog, lemme know and I’ll give you the login info~ I’ll be sending the access info to some of you right now to get the ball rolling ;)
Filed under: Inside My Mental Cavity | Tagged: thoughts
