Maybe being invisible wouldn't be as great as I used to think. I remember as a little kid just wishing I could sneak around invisibly and then as a not so little kid (in college) being so jealous of Harry Potter's cloak! But now that google has bestowed upon us invisible powers of sorts I'm not so sure how I feel about it.
I've been invisible on g-chat all day, and this afternoon I started to get depressed. After Lauren had to go to class I had no other chats going on. Nobody else knew or cared to "send offline chat"s my direction and I started feeling lonely. And then I realized how preposterous the whole thing is! If I want to chat I should get online and show myself! If I don't, I should just sign out. What is with the limbo of invisibility? Why do I like/use it so much? Someone asked me who I was hiding from the other day and I had no idea. I don't even know why I use it! I think I originally fell for the setting because of how it made me feel... akin to Jack Bauer or Sydney Bristow... so sneaky...so savvy! But now it's just obnoxious and I need to stop!
And to anyone else with the same invisibility addiction - I might be sending you random offline chats in an effort to flush you out and rid you of the horrid habit ("lovely girl/horrid habit")!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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I always get sad when people aren't chatting with me and then I realize I'm invisible! And then when I send chats to people who are usually online but generally invisible and they don't write me back, I feel like I've been stabbed in the back and wonder why they aren't online! But I find when people don't chat with me because I'm invisible much better than them not chatting with me when I'm visible. And I realize that it's my fault they aren't chatting because obviously they would be dying to chat with me if they knew I was on. (Or at least that's all my rationalization on the subject.)
Haha :) Liz, I love your invisibility comment! so funny! I hope you're doing well in nyc! I need to come visit soon!
hehe...oh Liz, how I love your insights! Whenever I think of invisibility, for some strange reason, passages from 1984 pop into my head and I wonder if I actually AM invisible despite any attempt on my part in the first place because somewhere, somehow, someone knows I'm around - strange. =)
Let's face it, I'm on gchat so much that I use the "invisible" tool so other wont see how often I sign in and out. It a comfort tool to make me (or others) think more highly of myself and that I have better things to do with my time than to be online all day.
I believe your response to "who are you hiding from?" was "Everyone. Don't you ever feel like avoiding our generation at large!" Ha Ha
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Amen
ha ha! So funny. I had to give it up too. I spent more time "spying" on who was on than anything else. So ridiculous!
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