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Vision Questing through the Social Notwork

It has only been a day and already I can see what lies ahead of us; it’s a vision quest. Like all vision quests it starts with a challenge, can we manage to live our lives for the next 30 days without knowing that so and so is sitting in the library wasting their Thursday or that dinkus and boy genius over there are now friends? But then the question of why arises. What is the purpose of departing on this voyage in the social notwork? As Raymo said call it the Lok’s or blame it on the Henne but the point is we don’t need to know all the answers. They come in time. You don’t even need to know the questions. All you need is the quest, and in that lies everything you need. Vision Quest baby, we’re goin for all the answers.

So what’s it like? Blaz says its dark, I can agree. Varg can’t stop going to check, even though he deactivated just yesterday, I can relate. Raymo remembers the yearning for those little notification bubbles that let you know you’re special and that somebody out there thought of you for a span of about 2 seconds, I feel him on that one. But what is it like for me??? I’ll tell you.

I see my browser open, filled with the usual five or six tabs open that I consistently roll with; catmail, blackboard, d2l, fantasy basketball (having a very good week by the way), and the usual randoms of youtube, possibly song lyrics, etc. But suddenly there’s no facebook tab. No longer do I finish looking at something in particular and immediately click over to the book to see if I’ve been talked about recently. How delightful! Suddenly I’m looking at my computer and seeing all the tools I have at my disposal that I practically never use because I’ve been a slave to the almighty Book. Take this blog post for example, let it be known that I also have a blog of my own, one that I fully intended on updating on a semi-daily basis, but has that happened? Of course not. It sits with the one post I made upon returning to Tucson, over 2 months ago. And yet here I am, posting away. Why? Because no longer am I wasting countless minutes looking at the news feed, checkin out sweet pics, commenting, liking, disliking, poking, message, uploading, status changing, GOD DAMN! Its overwhelming.

Even as I right just now when I hit a bit of a snag I contemplate switching over to the ‘ol explorer to refresh the news feed, yet I don’t, because its not there. And so I keep writing, such a pleasant surprise. Its only been a day and I’m wondering if I’ll ever want to go back. This deactivation has caused me to try and itemize the amount of time spent in facebook related activity, and its an astounding number.

So its only just begun, yes, and nobody knows what is to come. Perhaps I will eat these words in less than a week, perhaps I will delete my account altogether tomorrow. Nobody but time will tell. And that’s what makes it a vision quest, let’s go for all the answers, let’s find our place in the circle, and at the very least, let’s get drunk.

Catspeed to us all, Peace & Love, JeauxBeaux