After years of urging to bring\u00a0my online presence into the broader light of \u201cbig\u201d social media, including even Twitter and Instagram, I\u2019m approaching the larger stage with this post. \u00a0You 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 \u201crelationship\u201d in terms of having history with another poster. (This doesn\u2019t 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.)<\/p>\n
Social media is about disseminating information more so for consumption \u2013 in a unidirectional manner in many cases. \u00a0Information exchange is very often less intimate. \u00a0For instance, the online Facebook forum that bursts into hundreds of posts full of\u00a0hashtags and \u201clikes\u201d within\u00a0hours, with the majority of comments being redundant and quickly drowned out, is akin to\u00a0attending a concert held in a stadium: Fun and full of energy, but potentially dominated by crowd mentality. \u00a0One person many be having a deeply spiritual experience only 10 feet from another who is vomiting from overconsumption, both oblivious to one another. \u00a0 Place a subset of those same concert attendees\u00a0in a more intimate setting and the interaction might very well\u00a0be dramatically different, including more meaningful exchange of ideas and a synchronization of experiences. Once my technical abilities are up to snuff, this blog should post to Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, as well as my discussion board<\/a>. \u00a0(Pardon any duplicate posting while I troubleshoot.)<\/p>\n Coming soon: Musings on the science and art of bodybuilding.<\/p>\n -Scott<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After years of urging to bring\u00a0my online presence into the broader light of \u201cbig\u201d social media, including even Twitter and Instagram, I\u2019m approaching the larger stage with this post. \u00a0You 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 … Continue reading I live in here…<\/span>
\nThis 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\u00a0than posts on a single\u00a0discussion board (like my home board for years, Intense Muscle<\/a>.) \u00a0 I have not done the before, in part, simply because \u201cI live in here\u2026\u201d \u00a0To me, my own thoughts are not as novel as, from what I\u2019ve been told, they are to others. \u00a0 Thus, it seems that it\u2019s time to spread some novelty, and have some fun.<\/p>\n