After years of urging to bring my online presence into the broader light of “big” social media, including even Twitter and Instagram, I’m approaching the larger stage with this post.  You see, I grew up online on bodybuilding message boards, where the cast of characters was smaller and a true to and fro discussion was to be had. The focus here is an exchange of ideas, reciprocal learning and even, to the extent this is possible, developing a “relationship” in terms of having history with another poster. (This doesn’t mean one can really know the nuances of that person at a profound level, but at least personas can interact, which is what much of our dally lives in Western civilization is about anyway, I would say.)

Social media is about disseminating information more so for consumption – in a unidirectional manner in many cases.  Information exchange is very often less intimate.  For instance, the online Facebook forum that bursts into hundreds of posts full of hashtags and “likes” within hours, with the majority of comments being redundant and quickly drowned out, is akin to attending a concert held in a stadium: Fun and full of energy, but potentially dominated by crowd mentality.  One person many be having a deeply spiritual experience only 10 feet from another who is vomiting from overconsumption, both oblivious to one another.   Place a subset of those same concert attendees in a more intimate setting and the interaction might very well be dramatically different, including more meaningful exchange of ideas and a synchronization of experiences.
This all being said, should this blogging effort take off, I hope to convey information here in the spirit of intimate conversation, but in a way that may be disseminated more widely than posts on a single discussion board (like my home board for years, Intense Muscle.)   I have not done the before, in part, simply because “I live in here…”  To me, my own thoughts are not as novel as, from what I’ve been told, they are to others.   Thus, it seems that it’s time to spread some novelty, and have some fun.

Once my technical abilities are up to snuff, this blog should post to Facebook, Twitter, as well as my discussion board.  (Pardon any duplicate posting while I troubleshoot.)

Coming soon: Musings on the science and art of bodybuilding.

-Scott