Back to my Writing Ways

I happen to be on a couple of social networks, but Facebook is, for some reason the one that I use the most. That is where I can freely express my mind on the many issues that cloud my mind without fear. I don’t post offensive posts anyway.

I personally like Facebook. It has connected me with some important people who have left a mark on my life. It is also one of those things that keeps me connected to friends who are outside the country, being allergic to things like Skype and all.

There is one bad side of using Facebook, though. However small the number of friends you have may be, they are always too many. Surprised? Maybe you should wait for the explanation. Like any other typical account, mine has friends which range from family members, schoolmates, atsogoleri, role models and those people who just throw random requests (and are accepted when I am half awake  on my Facebook account). Well, that becomes the audience for whatever you post and for some reason that becomes a bit of  a problem. People see things they are not supposed to see and you might get into hot soup. Let’s not go to the point where people misinterpret what you say.

One of the things I find irritating, however, is the tendency to provide offline responses to Facebook posts. Much as I have done that to some people, and I am not proud of that, I feel like people over-do that with my posts. Each and every time I open for a new semester I have people around who come just to respond to something I posted on Facebook, which to me doesn't sound logical.

Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. He made sure that as long as I have space to post my stuff, every single one of my friends should have a space to give their view on my view. For some reason, some people do not just know how to use that but rather prefer to come to you personally to give their ‘response’. Obviously something I do not like. Tip? If I say something online, and I hope many are with me on this, respond to it right online. If you do not like going public, then just respond using some private message. Koma zisafike ku phone yanga.

Anyway, the whole point of all this writing is that I do not like people commenting on what I write online unnecessarily when we meet.

There was, however, an exception this weekend. I was walking around Kabila Tavern when I met one cyber friend of mine. Don’t get distracted with the name of the place we met. That’s just where we met and there is no other way of describing the place. Where we were coming from or going is also not relevant to this so we may ignore that on purpose.

This gentleman had a very good message to me. Actually it was from one of the church leaders. It was meant for me, but for one reason or the other he did not know that it was meant for me, so he was giving it to me as some sort of conveyor.

Again, I got distracted. What was so interesting about our chat was that he gave some positive feedback on my Facebook feeds. Now, here is someone who has does not comment on the stuff. That tells me one thing. The lack of comments on a Facebook post does not mean people do not see it. Lesson to us all.

Well. The gentleman went on to ask as to why I do not write. I did not answer that, because the reason I do not write is pure laziness. It is probably because I don’t have the feeling that people would be reading what I write.

I created my own blog years back, posted some few things, and when I saw that it did not have that much of an audience(it has two followers and has registered 425 views, half of which I think are my own), I abandoned it. It probably is time for me to resuscitate it and write some things, for the sake of those who can read the stuff.

What will I be writing on?

Well. Whatever comes to mind will be written. But it will obviously be good.