09 12 / 2009
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Nope. I don’t want people to be into what I do, say, think, or believe because I pretended to know them on a computer network; there’s plenty of books and sites to overserve those folks already. As long as the gold stars and the autofollows and the adds keep coming, they’ll stay happy as pigs in slop. And, why not?
Me? I’m way more interested in connecting with the people who’ve realized how hollow and unrewarding that kind of wholesale nonsense really is — how malignant it can be to shore up one piece of made-up life with another piece of made-up life. People who’ve learned the hard way what a drag and a burden it is to sweat your “personal brand” in the pursuit of a better-fitting mask.
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