When You Don't Need Facebook To Be "Like"-d

We are in the 'Google' age now after all. I may also have my fair share of everyday rants in Facebook and in Twitter and we always have that excuse...To hell with my friends and followers, this is my profile and I'm going to do/post whatever I want. And of course, like everything else in the world, there has to be limitations.

Maybe I just miss the simplicity of life. Say for example, when you check the newspaper in the morning instead of just checking your phone everytime to get updated with stuff. Text your friends instead of tweeting or tagging or Wall-ing them. When phones are used for texting and intimately, calling. Not too convenient, maybe, but I'm an old soul that way.
In which though not directly related, reminded me of this shuttle ride that I have been in, and it warmed my heart to see some of my seatmates reading Bible verses from a Bible app on their respective phones in there. It is a rare thing to happen because most, if not all, checks their online accounts, or plays games and stuff.
Inasmuch as it is irksome, I find it amusing when people actually post their daily rantings for the world wide web or the netizens to know. People do that everyday. Brag, self-pity, react on things they know nothing of..talk "private" things publicly....all that it would take for them to be noticed and to feel that people actually care about them. It could even get pathetic and sad at times when people can't say things directly to whoever it is that they are referring to and goes on trolling. But it has taught me of two things: (1) that there is such a thing as T.M.I. and (2) that there is also a thing called I-don't-really-give-a-shish. See, even in trolling, there is balance.
Aside from the fact that work consumes most of my weekdays, I also am trying to minimize my online life and try to live more. The real life. There is more to discover outside than on the internet life. People don't have to know all of my whereabouts. What I do. Maybe except for what I listen to, and what I read (because that's what most of my posts are these days). Limit. Just because social networking is about reaching to the public doesn't mean we have to go all the way. We can still choose to be private. Or at least, disclosed. Glossed.
I use to say I am more of a Twitter person than a Facebook person and I really am. I'm glad to say that I don't find Facebook that appealing anymore. I still enjoy posting stuff, though. I'm cool with seeing people tagging me on their photos and posts, Wall-ing me. I don't even have to update my page often because they are updating it (sort of) for me. My friends are awesome just like that. Hah. Who knows, I might waver from Twitter too. What's funny though is when I seldom tweet on weekdays and then reply to messages like there's no tomorrow on weekends (exagge!!!). I talk because I like to interact, whether publicly or privately (DM/PM-ing/WeChat/Viber). What's the point of adding/following if we are not to interact? (Defensive much?) It's just nice to know that someone misses you, and that their lives were touched by you, in a way. Scarred them for life, John Green would say.
And it is not like I'm not grateful for technology, in fact I am. We should be thankful and we should enjoy whay God gives (1 Tim. 6:17) after all.
I'm thankful that it has made us updated with each other, especially with our friends who are now out there working their arses out overseas.
I'm grateful and blessed to have known some set of friends who would stay with me through happy and tough times; who's criticism I value; who have scarred my life, likewise. And to be able to keep the real ones through the years.
I'm forever blessed to have found my best friend through the web that one time. Unbelievable as it may seem, but it is true. And although we may not get to talk as much as before, everything is well-preserved in my heart and mind.
I'm happy to be able to connect with the 'intangible' people and discover that they are also normal people like us. A little trivia: I initially created my Twitter to check on David Archuleta and the Phelps twins from the Harry Potter films haha I don't dig it at first but surprisingly I got pretty hooked (I have a whopping 49k tweets now, mostly interactions with friends, mind you). More than anything, I tweet because in there, I was able to communicate and there, I met some of my friends. Not your ordinary online buddies but friends for keeps.
I'm happy because I can write my thoughts; voice them out through blogs.
And the greatest realisation is that whatever you post, people always have a say on you and on all of the things that is going on around you. But you need not to please them. Nor force them to like you. Because you are "like"-d by default, by the One. He loves you, even when you're an ever attention-seeking human being. Even through your flaws. Even when you still say "stuffs" and "is equals to". Even when you try so hard to get noticed by people and you ignore Him. He's there to like and like and follow you ceaselessly.
And He is just a prayer away, if you wish to reach Him back.
Notes: About being private, that's just me. You don't have to be like me. Like I said, we are free to post anything. It's our prerogative and our choice. What's the point of putting up an online account if we are not to use it, right? And I blog... because I can. ;)
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