Guimikko

A long-time interweb friend of mine wrote a lengthy forum reply to me on a forum about rethinking social media. And it was really, I mean really about properly rethinking social media. It began like this: "Mikko: You and/or your cohorts could code this up:[...]" thus I replied, thus realizing I had a blog post for my blog:

You're effin' kidding me, right? And you're sure you aren't following me in Twitter and/or in Facebook, despite the language-barrier in the latter one? ;)

I mean, with all due respect, most of my cohorts and age compadres are already suckered into thinking they are making money in and around that vacuum [social media], thinking short-term, etc. House-loans and other financial tie-ups are a bitch. So is monthly salary, that's where many of my peers are today. I guess they are happy or at least content, too. Many think they took chances following a path which is nothing more than a glass tube from kindergarten to school to higher ed to nine-to-five to retirement. You think that mindframe is the kind to go for chances and/or DIY?

I can't code for shit, when it comes to other than modifying and working with existing php for instance. I'm a dropout, a small-time chronically broke  entrepreneur who told the aforementioned tube to go fsck itself after enrolling to a higher ed facility. So I tried the kind of nine-to-five thing for a while, wasn't my cup of tea and I went through two burnouts and clinical depression trying out that shit. After which I told the nine-to-five thing to really go fsck itself.

I bitch and complain about Facebook's and Skype's crappy useless UX, and any other applications which happen to have a crappy useless UX and young dumb UX devs/designers trying to re-invent the wheel all the goddamn time while reaching for the popcorn enjoying seeing it evolve into a beautiful trainwreck every time, before something actually useful comes out of it - rarely getting any feedback from my peers in any media, which must mean my thinking doesn't resonate with them. The same goes for politics obviously, but we're talking business now.

Funny he'd bring this up as a while back I was approached to check out and possibly join a social thingamajig startup/venture/hobby, but I still haven't made up my mind. Is this some kind of cosmic karma and did I just run out of excuses? I briefly pondered about the stupid social hype last November and went for more popcorn.

Obviously I re-edited some of this to accommodate for readers here, duh, but not all, duh. Finnish translation may or may not appear at a later date. I love Mondays.