Why I hate social networks – der Eremit und das Erdloch
Ok, so don’t know why but I became lazy. Lazy and off the way and my plans to write some stuff faded so far away. But let’s stop doing nothing and continue with this here now.
So whilst writing nothing I found something. It was in a senseless, “I don’t know what to do with myself”, White Stripes memoriam moment: I found myself in a social network, in the one that is most ridiculous – and most German. Originally I just had to look up an old friend for something urgent, but suddenly I was surfing like on a wave of sociality. I gone was totally trapped in this spider web. As the Frankenburger said one day, when the social wave got you once you’ll never run away. But then the Beach Boys feeling faded away, all gone was my beloved California.
What took its place was the deepest desert, filled with dark sand – so call it central Northern Iceland. Or so. In between all this persons, in between all those guys I called friends one day, there was deep lonelyness. Maybe it were the stolen moments that squashed the Beach Boys. The moments when you’re having a drink and your old friend tells you about special moments in the last years, about what you missed out. This gets so unnecessary now. Maybe it are these moments that make you enthusiastic and help you on to go forward in your life. That help you back when you’re off the track.
Or the moments when you just stop in a bakery to have a coffee to go and the girl in front of you in the queue is the one you had a crush in your frog year. And you start to talk again and tell your about life. What you’ve done in the past years. Where will alll these stories go? Why should she smile about a story you tell her, when she’s already seen the pictures?
Then, after surfing for one hour and after having seen everything, even things in I never wanted to see, I was totally exhausted. And all that is left is anger. Besides you’re empty.
Besides that, there was something happening really from the far North this week. I was doormen (yes me) at a party. I had to put stamps on peoples hand and make them smile. And there many smiles and even smugs, but oh how i liked them. I became a dancing stampguy.

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