new blog approach

so, since i am now attempting to stay tuned in to a social life via facebook, in order to combat the tendency of me to be a home body who, especially while unemployed, tends to feel cooped up, i have decided to do something new with my blog.

since i've got a wide variety of friends (and friends-of-friends) on facebook, there is an equally wide variety of topics which arise and to which i have responded.  sometimes an awesome debate or discussion is going on, and i wonder why none of my other pals jump in with their points of view.  then i realized that when i comment on the page of [person A], if i want [person B] to be able to see it, those two have to be friends on facebook.  but my network is composed of lots of different actual real-world social networks, which means that half the stuff i write on facebook is never available for further comment to my other friends.  not that i think anyone is going to visit my blog and comment here.  that's why everyone's on facebook.  but, since i've accepted the fact that everything i do online is potentially permanently attached to me, and searchable by future employers and the like, why not just put it all here on my blog?  then if anyone wants to see all the things that i think and say, they can find it all in one place, instead of digging through facebook for juicy tidbits.  and maybe, occasionally, i'll get a good discussion going.

so, i'm just explaining this new way of using my blog, so in case there's a soul out there following my blog, it will be clear why it is that the approach has changed.  i'm ranting on facebook now, instead of my blog, and importing those rants to my blog.  i am also prone to rant about redundancy, and how it's such a waste of time, but since there is the layer of privacy on facebook for each individual user to set to their own tastes, some of this might not have been visible to anyone else otherwise.  so it's only partially redundant.  which makes it the kind of redundancy you want, like the redundancy in a RAID.  or maybe you don't want it.  but let's just pretend.