Wow. The ratio of original blogs to reblogs are staggering.

I spoke to Mason about this today, and it was a really good conversation. Mason is keeping track of his new film. He told me that there were seven times more posts about it than actual views on the movie. That’s a lot. Numbers of friends, followers, whatever don’t matter. Your so-called followers and friends on facebook hardly care what you are doing, but you don’t really care what they’re doing. It’s all for nothing. It’s all for show. It’s all to feed into our self-aware society that we have become to know as our own. Are these even real thoughts? Yeah, they are coming from my brain as I type them on this blog. But how many other posts have been like this? Does it matter how many posts are like this? I dont know. I can’t know. Tumblr doesn’t even know. I can’t do anything about it, except maybe stop following the ones who keep reposting the same old bullshit. Is it even worth it? You’re probably reading this thinking, why don’t you just delete your account? It’s not like you use it any way. And you’re right. I’m never on this site. It doesn’t really matter to me. It shouldn’t really matter to me. However, there are a few blogs I truly enjoy. I wouldn’t want this to be a post of promotion of my friend’s pages which this very well could be after this long rant, but it wouldn’t do any good. You’d look at those blogs for two seconds, reblog a post or two, and be on your way. That’s what we are made to do. Maybe I was on the road too long. Maybe it’s finally coming out, what was supposed to happen after my trip. Maybe I am just becoming one of those people who hates society. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter what I am becoming. What matters is the fact I feel this way, and feel the need to express it right now in blog form on the site that I am complaining about. And I am one of those people who never feels the need to really truly speak their mind about such a first-world problem. I, however, believe this is becoming a bigger problem. We are constantly forgetting about the bigger problems. Yeah, I am guilty of it, too. And writing a blog about it isn’t going to do any good except for make you think for one second, but never change your mind, re-shape how you think. It takes a lot for that to happen. Of course I know that. You know that, as well. This is simply what our current big trend is; posting on the internet, our most deep and personal thoughts because we are all important. We want to feel important. Yes, your opinion matters. Your vote really does matter. It keeps us going. It keeps us sane. But then if we all think our opinions matter, why do we feel the need to post someone else’s post? Is it to show we all think the same? It it to show we have things in common? Is it to show unity in strangers? We all like the same things, let’s be friends. Best friends. Is that how it works? It’s one thing to post have a few re-blogs, but when it becomes every one of your posts? Do you even have a thought in your head anymore? Or are you just mindlessly looking through and seeing what fits your interests and re-posting it? Maybe Tumblr is just another piece in the jigsaw puzzle of our society’s intertextual metafiction that happens every second of our lives. We always reference something that referenced something else without even noticing it. What’s real anymore? Am I still real? Are you? Maybe this is all a load of crap, I’m just a loon. What if I’m onto something? What if all the other people who have thought of it are onto something? Are we the outsiders now, the people who don’t really truly feel the need to post every opinion they have about anything online for the world to see? I mean, I do have facebook, tumblr, and twitter, and I am speaking my mind about a first-world problem now. Maybe it’s not even a problem. It’s definitely an opnion. I don’t think problem is the right word. It just is. It’s something. Our generation is the first to have this readily available to us. Kids are using iPads as young as pre-school. That’s nuts! What is our generation capable of? What can we do? Will this whole thing wear off because we have become so used to it? Now I’m stealing Mason’s ideas. I should stop now. Sorry if this is upsetting to anyone, and all the grammatical and spelling errors you probably counted while reading this.