"Til death post us apart?"
There's an article online where I appear with an ex and I would hate it to be the only thing that people would remember me for. Seriously. I abhor the thought. I appeared in that article almost against my will. You see, my ex was very stubborn, and he wanted to have an article written about him. The thing is, the person writing the article chatted with me for sixty seconds and then they wanted me in it, too. Ugh. I should have said no.
Well, I kind of did, but ended up sitting up with them anyway. And guess what? I said three things related to the actual topic the interview was about and I was quoted on those three things. I should have kept my mouth shut. But you know me already. It would have been almost impossible to stay silent cause the interviewer and I were cackling and carrying on like we've known each other for years three minutes into the initial chat.
But seriously, I don't have an 'online presence', really. I don't have Facehook or Bluesky or an active Twitter or Meta. I don't have LinkedIn or a dating profile. All I have is this blog. I sometimes wonder what will happen to this blog when I'm not here anymore? Maybe someone will find it and will decide to read through all the nonsense I post and come up with a picture of me that would probably be accurate. After all you, Constant Reader, know me better than many people I talk to on the daily. Even though you may not know my name or have not seen my face, I know that if we meet and we exchange three sentences you'll say: "That's Sixpence"!
Because of course you would. And that's why I like you...
XOXO
I think my online presence, such as it is, is only part of the picture, though people who know me would recognize it; but I, like most people, am more that the blog and the Facebook and the Twitter.
ReplyDeleteI hope.
xoxo
Oh, of course.
DeleteBut you guys know how and who I like to fuck. LOL
And as they say in the video, the digital footprint is very, very telling.
XOXO
Speaking of me, I also have my own blog, an Instagram profile and a Twitter profile (I find it horrendous to call it X). But nowhere have I put my photos. So one knows me more for my comments than on my own blog and on Instagram and Twitter, which I only use to read and see other people's profiles and photos. If you click here and here, you'll learn something about my blog and my life.
ReplyDeleteLet me add something more: very often I thought to let my blogger life (my own blog + comments to other's) die. Even though I think they are ephemeral relationships, I can't bring myself to do it. I do not know why.
Ohhh I loved those posts!
DeleteAnd you mustn't close your blog. It's very beautiful and we're always up to ogle beautiful men. It's very aesthetically pleasing! And I love your comments! You always have something to say.
XOXO
Thanks!
DeleteHuntleyBiGuy:
ReplyDeleteIt’s amazing the breadcrumbs we leave behind in out digital life. What have we read, what have we bought, who have we emailed, who have we been snarky with (looking at you babe 😝). Like you I don’t have much of a digital posting life: no Facebook, I have a Twitter account but no posts, I do have a LinkedIn because when I was between jobs, the service the former company paid for advocated for it to find a new job.
But that’s it and I’m ok with that. And I see that Google is closing accounts that have been inactive for two years. I don’t know what that means for my Blogger account since I can’t log in to post on most blogs. I don’t have a blog myself, I created the account to make it easier to comment on yours, but you can see how well that’s going these days. 🙄
XOXO 👨🏼❤️💋👨🏽
Oh, absolutely!
DeleteThat's what Facehook and twitter and all the 'free' websites feed on. And i read about Google closing all those email accounts! Probably to gain space? And I cannot understand why google does not let you comment under your name????
XOXO
Big says,
ReplyDeleteOh, the digital print is there for sure. I've got here, FB, LinkedIn (for the same reason as Huntley), website, and long-dormant Twit and Insta. Course, here, as you know, is a completely different persona - though still represents. I rarely post to Linked, even FB is slowing down little by little. I would hate for my blog to go away because it serves an educational purpose (I hope, anyway). But I know the policy now is that Blogger will delete any blog that lays dormant for two years. XOXO
OMG I didn't know that Blogger will delete anything that's dormant for more than two years?
DeleteMaybe I should post in my old blogger blogs???
And the digital print IS indeed there.
XOXO
If I have a blog presence, or any other social media presence, I dread that it may someday all be gathered together and published as a text boon on abnormal psychology.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha
DeleteOMG you're too funny!
I love your blog. It feels to me like a journal.
XOXO
well, it started as a blog but rapidly turned into a journal. guess I am the most interesting person I know after all
DeleteHahahah
DeleteYou are.
XOXO
that should be book and not boon
ReplyDeleteI'm on a lot of stuff, mostly to try and sell books. Do I want people to remember me? I don't really care. The Internet is eternal, meaning my stuff is going to be out there with 500 hundred billion other bits of stuff. Leaving digital messages for your next of kin? That's mostly ego since, great grandchildren aren't really going to care. We're all going to die and be forgotten after 2 - 3 generations, just deal with it.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's smart.
DeleteNowadays authors and artists do a lot online. And you are right about the internet. There's archives of everything. I was just in a website that opened in 1997!!
And I would NOT leave messages to anybody. Creepy.
XOXO
I have often wondered that too. I think blogs will eventually disappear, if they sit on attended or updated for long. I know several you stopped, and years later the blog site got opened up and reassigned. Or the bots take over. Poor Anne Marie's blog. I go back at times and re read parts, and I have been told by new readers that when they find a blog, they go back and read part form the past. I have only my blog and my Instagram....and the Lad has a twitter for his love of my naughty pictures.
ReplyDeleteI can only surmise if people in the future come across my blog or Instagram, they will say Who was this eccentric, gin guzzling, travel, art loving south American loving slut.
The twitter? Who was this guy with the big ass. Or better still, maybe they will just cum across it.
All this....till at least I write my memoirs. HA!
OMG I was also on Anne Marie's blog just last month.
DeleteAnd I have noticed that people read many of my old posts here! How bizarre.
Memoirs??? Now, THAT I'd love to read!!
XOXO
Warbucks came across a company that can convert your whole blog or certain parts into a hardbound book. A blogger friend of mine , her brother did it for her as a gift for her birthday... and it is very nice looking and sharp. I don't know how long I'll go, who knows, but if I stopped and the blog would disappear...what a shame....all that posting going down the tubes on 15 years.
ReplyDeleteOhhh
DeleteThat is a fab idea! And I hope Bloggeer does not fuck us over cause we've invested a lot of time and memories here.
XOXO
HuntleyBiGuy:
DeleteYou gentlemen should occasionally post on Ann Marie’s blog, something like “remembering the Queen!” That may keep it active.
Remember that old TV show "Lou Grant" and it's opening sequence where yesterday's newspaper journalism becomes today's fishwrap or birdcage liner? That's what will happen to our blogs. So enjoy them here and now in the moment!
ReplyDeleteHahaha
DeleteOh, probably. We'll be part of the detritus of past online lives that'll live online for years...
XOXO
I don't really care what happens after I'm gone. What difference does it make to me? Like I will know? After a few run-ins with my end date, I stopped worrying about the afterlife or life on this planet after I'm gone. That doesn't mean I don't care about the welfare of the planet or others while I'm here - for that is all part of my living experience. But when I'm gone? Well... it's just a blank screen, dear. A blue screen. Computer says 'no'. I won't know, so why worry about it? Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteI know, right?
DeleteBut I think that maybe a queer kid will find the blog and laugh hysterically at my shenanigans. It can also work as a time capsule, because I can't get away from current events.
And I think we have to make our lives (and those lives around us) as good as we can while we are here. After we die? There's nothing.
XOXO