
So, yeh! I'm on IG, how about you? I'm "kitschydigitals" if you're interested. Let me know what your IG name is in the comments section, I'd love to follow! I know I've complained about my 'Droid here but once I heard that they had a new app for Droids for Instagram I was all "well, I guess I'll try it out" all non-chalant-like (you know, secretly thinking "YES! i've GOT to try this thing out that all those iphone-ers are always yapping about!"
I was hesitant to at first because I don't know about you, but who needs another time-sucker! Lord, I can't keep up with it all AND get work done! I honestly got hooked when I had access to Ethan's work iphone for a week or two. That kind of spoiled me. Then he went and changed jobs and now has a Blackberry (booooo). So, most of these pics are from my 'Droid, some from his iphone. My camera takes the worst pics and I can't tell if it's my phone/model/megapixels or what. I see other 'Droid user's pics and a lot of them look better. I'm thinking they have a better model. Mine is cheap and my bill is like $25 a month. Ha! Good on the pocketbook, not so good for photo quality.
As a person that has spent the better part of the past 8 years or so perfecting my photography, it's hurts me a little inside having to upload my crap-tastic pictures. But hey, they are what they are, so go with it, baby. : )

As you can see, most of my photos are of things I left behind at thrift stores and antique malls... some things I brought home with me... random family stuff and other happenings going on around the Thompson household... me considering dying my hair pink (!!!)... molding eggs into rabbit faces... weekend trips to Birmingham, Alabama... margaritas... Ramona the Rat!... and exciting photos of me in my bathroom mirror.

I don't post photos a lot on IG and honestly, I prefer Twitter (i know they're different, but some people seem to hang out on one more than the other). I don't always have a pretty or interesting photo to upload with my thoughts, so that is why I love Twitter. I've seen a lot of IG accounts where the person always has a gorgeous photo to upload of their perfect home, with their perfect children, while they're homeschooling and making meals with ingredients from their homegrown garden... and I quickly start feeling like "wow. My life feels pretty dang boring. I'm sitting here getting an oil change and my kid is having a meltdown."
I moaned about this a bit on said Twitter this week, about the need to broadcast everything we do... that feeling that it's only validated if we take a pic and broadcast it across the internet. (and when you're in the Creative world that I'm in, everyone is trying to out-do each other with their perfectness.)
To think that there was a time that we didn't need to do that (broadcast everything). Even folks that aren't on Twitter, or IG, or that don't blog, most people are at a minimum on Facebook.
It's hard to remember a time when we didn't feel the need to tell everyone everything... instantly!
To think we just went about our lives, living it. Not worrying about who you could tell or show. The world really is a big Show-and-Tell game. But I get that it's just the way it is.
I seem to be a good 5-10 years older than most people I encounter in my little neck-of-the-internet-woods. We were just starting to use email when I was in college. So growing up, for me, was just normal, you know? I wasn't glued to my phone or e-mail. Or texting. I was just living my life.
It's all very perplexing if I think about it too much. Online social networking can be fun, but it's also just a bit MUCH. I can immediately feel myself getting in a bad mood if I get too immersed in it all and that says a lot to me. I'm most happy when I'm oblivious. When I'm working hard on building my business and making my time count. When I'm in the moment with my family.
When I'm not broadcasting a damn thing about it. That is when I'm happiest.
It's a weird, sometimes fun, but always perplexing thing.
How do you feel about it all? Our constant need to have our face glued to the internet and our phones? The need to tell everyone about everything, every hour of the day.
I have friends that aren't even part of this world. One of these friends and I were talking about it a few weekends ago. She doesn't even do Facebook.
Honestly? I envied her. A lot. We were saying that the difference between these two kinds of people, you see it immediately in their body language. For example, you're at a park. One person takes it all in. Breathes it in. People watches. The other person might do that for a little while, but swiftly becomes bored, yanks out his or her phone and starts tap, tap, tapping. It's like everyone has ADD. It's like you can't spend FIVE minutes just relaxing.
I see that in myself a lot. That restlessness. But I think it's just been conditioned in me, you know? If my business and other things didn't depend on the internet, and my connection to people around the world, the idea of totally unplugging from it would sound perty daggum awesome.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Please share!