I stopped writing a while back, life got in the way between work, marriage and lets face it, gaming is still my weakness.

But I find myself every once in a while coming back here, reading some of my old posts and wondering where my ability to knock one of these blogs out in the wee hours went to, even though I’m still *naked* when I write these.

I hang out on Reddit a lot in the wee hours, and while I disdain social media on the whole, it brings to mind the inability to capture readers if your statement is longer than 140 characters. The mind set is just not there. Based on any hashtag that crosses my path, and lordy do I hate the hashtag, but you can’t say anything deep and meaningful when you have the attention span of a flea, and a pack mentality. Every time I see or hear the hashtag for whatever has set the social media storm brewing, I picture the Coliseum and the mobs crying out for more blood or maybe the occasional hero they wanted spared. What once was the social collection of souls back in the day, it now sits empty and a tourist attraction.   I have to wonder what the next tech out there will be that reduces the masses to maybe just a sound , a grunt of approval or snort of derision, a 1 micro-byte of sound, when the masses can’t be bothered anymore to hashtag out 140 characters.

I miss the days when blogging was relevant, when you have to sit and think what will grab a readers attention , or just be able to write something relevant or humorous in the middle of the night.

There’s still a ghost of a chance someone still reads this.