What's the point of all these things?!

I decided to get a Tumblr. Maybe because I've grown weary of my own inability to tweet, or maybe the ability to actually interact with people no longer appeals to me (facebook). Maybe I just like the idea of the abandoned vowel in "tumblr". Whatever the reason is, I have one now.


Unfortunately, I can't really figure out the point of any of these things. Brielle has explained Twitter to me a thousand times, but I always just have to respond with a shrug and say "Okay?".  Blogs are nice if you have something to say, but they make me feel genuinely narcissistic and overly self-involved. They also make me feel like I spent too much time looking at a computer screen. Or maybe they make me feel lonely, because who really reads these things anyway? All the people I care about, I care about in real time in the real world. I love to see them vis-a-vis, and I see no shame in this antiquated means of relaying who I am and what I care about to them.


But I don't have that luxury anymore. Or I won't soon, actually, because I'm going to be in Paris for the next 7 months. 


And so I guess the real reason I decided to return to this blog (which I made ages ago), and the true reason I got a tumblr (fifteen minutes ago) is because of selfish reasons. Not entirely selfish, because I know there are people out there who will care about where I've been, what I've seen, and who I'm growing into being (yes, Mom, I'm talkin 'bout chu), but mostly selfish, because I want to keep track of myself. I think it would be nice. I think that, between all the means of relaying information and showing flashy pictures, I will feel a bit too spread out, though. I can already foresee the struggle (do these beach photos go on my Tumblr or my Facebook!?). Ah, chaos will ensue. 


But before it does, I'll collect my thoughts here over the next days. And soon I will be in France, and maybe I won't have time to exist in both the real world and the interwebs. Maybe I'll just get a journal (read: diary!) and handwrite everything as I've always done and always feel so inclined to do. We'll see how it goes. Right now, this will suffice.


But don't expect any tweets. I still don't get that. If I'm supposed to be a child of the 21st century, perhaps I was adopted...