A month ago I decided to close down my Twitter account “jdodson.”  I really like Twitter quite a bit.  I really like tweeting my mind and reading what other people have to say in 4 or less words.  I really like micro blogging.  I like micro blogging outrageous and absurd things.  Kind of like how I am in real life actually.

That said, I really don’t like people criticizing what I write.  I figure, if you don’t like what I have to say, tweet, blog or what have you…. Then, well, I would stop consuming it.  I also closed down my Facebook account for this reason as well.  It seems certain people dig the fact that I am in a particular social network.  I get it, I am a fun person.  I write well most of the time.   However, it seems often times with certain people that the more I write the more they dislike much of the material.  For whatever reason.

When I keep reading stuff written by people I don’t like reading I stop.  If I read enough stuff I don’t like I unsubscribe.  There is a author in The Oregonian I don’t like and I don’t read his stuff anymore.  No letters to the editor, I just don’t consume it. In the past with friends, often times when I don’t like what they create, its because its not what I would do.  Its not my style, sense of humor or whatever else it could be at the time.  This doesn’t mean what they do is wrong, it means its not me.  My friend jdubb has a YouTube site of many great videos.  When he first made his videos I didn’t like them as much(I love them now for what its worth) and tried to keep getting him to change them.  Change the pacing, the editing, sense of humor, etc.  In the end I was just trying to make his thing what I would do.  I get that same impression on Social Networks from people that are connected to me.  I want people to connect with me because of who I am, not what they think I should be.

Since I am not in a quest to change people and I find things that are not as much fun to not be compelling, I deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts.  I am am actually Twittering under a anonymous profile because I love it so much.   Its nice to be under the cloud of Anonymity too, no one can “google me” and find some crazy screed about absurdium.  I also have a “ghost blog” where I post some absolutely inane rants that are fun to write and equally hard to understand.

All told, I believe people mean well I just think if the audience doesn’t get what you do you should get a new audience.  Again, its not my goal to change people.  I guess I could be less outrageous but that’s not as much fun.  And if its not fun I wouldn’t really do it.

The format for this blog will be mostly about my life.  I am going to keep it watered down because I don’t want to offend anyone here.  I see this blog as a house in a affluent and gated community.  And like the best of gated communities if there is anything strange going on you would never know because outward appearances are more important than reality.  And in the end I think that’s what 99% of the people that know me what to consume anyway.  I think people honestly want what makes them the most comfortable and a unoffensive, toned down & “white picked fence jdodson” is what you will find here.

Enjoy.