Hmm... are they just a game?

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Is twitter, f.b., gab, and perhaps others, just a way to attempt to gain popularity... or, really, false popularity?  Collecting... what are they called?  Ah, followers.  Is it just the high school popularity contest all over?  Or is there a real reason to use the system, or at least gab?  I have heard, as with anything, it depends on your goals.

For now I have little interest in posting, much.  I am more looking for sources of news, maybe a laugh from time to time, and such.  I have learned that reaching out, on the interwebs... most people aren't who they present.  I am considered hardcore and tight.  Do you really mean you wouldn't bang a chick if you have the chance?  Well, yes.  I don't care if she tricks out all my bells and whistles.  I simply won't mess with a woman unless we are married.  Really?  Really.  And, yeah, I really used to be a bad boy.  Some would say a very naughty boy, others would say phenomenally bad.  I really did give up several aspects that some dream to enact (wrongly, I assure) and even diametrically opposed odds and ends.  But, pretty much, what I write here is what I mean, save that I can, do, have, and will again sin.  So I am not looking for friends, mostly.  Too many honestly do not believe in anything, and their intent is as weak as their intellect.  Though the truly erudite are often worse, as are the powerful and rich.  Curses, but comfortable ones.  Been there, done that, if for just a short while.

No, news.  Perhaps a laugh or three.  Maybe contacts should I ever begin doing things, like getting out.  At least once I get out.  Not a high probability notion.  If I can improve, then get out on my own so as to gauge my ability, then to meet others who get out?  Yeah.  But as with women, friends have to... well... don't expect much.  Love and friendship is, often, like money.  You can have it or you can spend it, just not both.  And, without some source and production of the wealth of any sort, spending is dangerous.  You can only spend what you have and what you can create, so... be gentle in your demands.  And be gracious in what you offer.  Give freely what you have.  But... don't expect much.  You aren't the only one living to die.

I'm just not going to play the game, at least not for popularity.  I am going to attempt to play it completely... stoic?  Well, that is the goal.  If I feel I am being attacked, for the most part, I should ignore.  If I don't understand, ask.  Just business.  Pretend conversation there will be read by everyone I know.  Then again that doesn't stop me here.  Hmm... I'll have to think on things, as I learn more.  Doesn't anybody use twitter or gab?  Really?  Though perhaps you do it, and did it, just going in cold.  If... I have some suspicions... I am more alone here than I thought.  In some dark ways.  Perhaps.