
(photo from her, first seen on Gala Darling)
Hello!
I’m back from a trip to clear my head and at the same time, to spend quality time with a dear friend. Trips are always the best antidote to uninspiration and I’m back feeling refreshed and ready to write away again (:
I’m posting the above photo, which is taken in Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Room, because I’ve been trying to clear my Google Reader and I am getting so bored of reading blogs. Whatever I read (for the fashion genre) fall into two general categories: personal style vs. fashion news.
While it does kill time, I find that fashion news are generally repeated. For example, I’ve been reading a lot of coverage on The Uniform Project. It’s a really great idea, I love it! But when I read it for the fifth time I get pretty bored of it.
I read a lot of personal style blogs too, but sometimes after reading and ‘getting’ the person’s style, you get kind of bored from it too. Like I really like reading the Rumi, Camille, Lulu blogs but after some time I stop clicking for two weeks… and then I read them all at once.
I think I spend so much time on the Internet that my attention span is decreasing constantly to the point where I need to be excited every time I click on a new page. If I don’t, I feel disappointed and bored.
My solution to this is to schedule a day every week to be totally offline. I take my journal, sit in a quiet cafe and write my thoughts away. I work on paper instead of on screen. I’m also working hard not to write out of ‘bloggers guilt’, but to write only with quality content.
Are you suffering from Internet overdependence? Do you constantly feel a need to read blogs or your Google Reader, or check out blogshops daily? If you didn’t get online for a day or two, do you feel like a part of your life is missing?
Let’s see how dependent the citizens on Fashion Nation are to the Web. (;
Your fellow Internet addict
Stephie