Overload

Sometimes it's all just too much. I was talking to a good friend this week and we were talking about how sometimes we think blogging is just stupid. It seems pretty ironic since I keep a blog and I enjoy looking at other blogs--but sometimes it just gets to be too much! Almost everybody I know has a blog and because I consider myself to be a good friend--I sometimes feel like I need to read EVERYBODY'S blog in order to keep up with what is going on in their lives. Often times, if the blog belongs to someone that I'm not even that close to--I just read it for the sake of marking it as read on my google reader. How PATHETIC is that?! I am trying to simplify my life but this seems counterproductive. I have had to unsubscribe/stop reading a lot of blogs on a regular basis. I think blogs are awesome for checking in with people every now and again. But I found myself getting to the point where I felt like I needed to read EVERY single blog EVERY single day. Before I know it, Cole will be in school all day and I will realize that I spent too much time blog surfing and not enough time playing trucks, reading the same stories over and over and over and over and over again and making great memories with him. This seems to be an area that I am weak in--I'm such a techno geek and I love all the things that the internet has to offer. But just like with anything else, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. So the irony here again is that I'm blogging about how it's gotten out of control. It just seems to have become a FRENZY and I just can't keep up with it all. I don't remember the last time I read a book from cover to cover...and I really love to read. So why do we do it? Some people blog about the WEIRDEST stuff. And SOME weirdos blog about American Idol {SEASON 8 IS FINALLY HERE!!)...what kinds of freaks are these people?! :))

So now you're thinking--"Hmm, I haven't seen a comment from RaeLynn on MY blog for a while--the jerk stopped reading. I'm going to stop reading HER blog. That'll show her." Admit it, some of you were thinking that. But you'll probably notice that my blog has a TON less comments then it used to as well. People are in such a rush to read all their blogs that commenting is too much of a hassle. I've become one of them. And while commenting isn't mandatory--it sure is fun to be on the receiving end. I have to admit that when I post something that gets no comments (or even 1) I start to feel dumb for having wasted the time to make the post in the first place. Why has it come to that? I hate that I let it get to me...it's so immature and yet it's really how I feel. I even feel guilty if a Tuesday goes by and I don't post one of my "Why Didn't They Tell Me" posts...that is UBER lame. I shouldn't feel pressured--but I'm the one making these expectations of myself.

While I'm rambling on and on, I just have to say that while Facebook is VERY cool for reconnecting with old friends--it's kind of this same thing. It's sometimes just too much. In one place I can see what 300 people are doing, what their current profile picture is, what comments THEY make on other pictures, who THEY are friends with, pictures THEY are in, and ON AND ON. Don't get me wrong (please don't)...I LOVE keeping in touch with people and I really enjoy using Facebook. I just think it can be addictive. I have a friend who doesn't want to create an account because she doesn't want to get sucked in to a potential time waster...and while the initial purpose of signing up for Facebook is usually good intentioned--it can OFTEN turn into a place to waste time. (I should know--I work at home and get so bored sometimes between calls that I am on facebook for hours at a time taking dumb quizzes, looking at pictures of total strangers and wondering why I'm not as cute or successful as half of my friends) AAAAAAAAAAH. I need a hobby that I can do at my desk that doesn't involve the information super highway.

Am I way off base here? Am I overreacting? Or do you feel it too?

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