the inaugural post

hello! 

welcome to my blog :) 

i have spent a lot of this year thinking about how there has been a lack of personalisation with social media, which is interesting since social media has only helped us broadcast our own lives and personalities more frequently than ever before. 

but, as we moved away from PCs and laptops, and spend more time scrolling on our for you pages, there has been a distinct lack of personality on our favourite social media apps - yes, i can add a song to my instagram page now, but i did that on my tumblr when instagram was in its infancy. yes, i have curated all my little apps to show me all the little things that i am interested in, but my "explore page" and "for you page" doesn't feel like my own little corner of the internet - it just feels like ai and big socials know more about myself than i do. and i spend a lot of time saving things that i would love to do, or getting inspired, but not actually doing anything - which probably says a lot more about myself and my affinity for procrastination but hey ho. 

actually what i looked like this time
last year when i got bangs

i used to code neopets pages and tumblr sites with my friends to truly show off my personality online. i started using the internet around in around 2008?? i think i got my first facebook account in 2009 (dont tell zuckerbrg even though he probably knows), but, i was too young for myspace and i think bebo was dying off anyways, but the internet i was introduced to allowed each user to have a space that was distinctly their own, and this is what i miss!! i loved going on to my friend's sites and seeing what songs they added to
their playlists, or what widgets they added for me to interact with. growing up watching ugly betty, confessions of a shopaholic and the devil wears prada, updating my own site felt like updating my own magazine - i actually used use my stardoll album as a magazine, which i just ended up going down a rabbit hole to try and log back in and found out i made my stardoll profile in november 2009. god, the good ol' days.

anyways, all this is to say, i miss having my own distinct site on the internet, and i have been thinking about blogging for a while to get my creative juices flowing, and also put my critical thinking and writing skills to work after doing a bachelors and a masters!! 

i hope that this blog becomes somewhere that you want to come and read about what i thought about the latest internet drama, or somewhere where i can just keep a digital record of thoughts i want to share - not a diary of sorts, as i still believe in the power of the private written word, but somewhere that i can larp as carrie bradshaw, and let you know my in-depth thoughts and analysis of the latest tiktok trends and how they actually stems from niche vine videos i used to repost. 

anyways. 'til the next one. 

laura x