✴ 08/08/2025 - I shall vanish
Hello, friend!
I am still alive, lol. I'm making this post because I hate coming across old websites that get abandoned and not knowing what happened to the creator makes me a bit sad sometimes. So, if anyone is like me out there, this post is for you(:
In this age, I continually become concerned about my privacy online in different ways. I think with this website, I was too eager about sharing my work and attatching it to other social media or whatever. I love the 'old web' precisely because one of those disappearing concepts it did so well was anonymity. So, I am not leaving the old web - but I am changing how I interact with it (and most of the internet in general). Growing up, I was always taught that you need to be careful online with what information you share, but somewhere along the way I lost that. I started putting my real name on social media, using the discord I have for talking with my friends as a way to interact with total communities of strangers. I know that's not unusual these days, but for me, I am going to go back to how I used to do things.
Why? I don't know. Maybe nostalgia? Maybe these days I'm incredibly desperate for any semblance of privacy? Maybe it's because I've been doxxed before and now I have the curse of getting paranoid about my 'online paper trail' from time to time. I do know that I am moving away from being online more and more. It is my goal to eventually primarily only interact with physical media (as much as I can) and to go back to using my phone as primarily just a phone again. I'm still trying to figure out how to balance that without losing consistant interaction with my friends. I think when I use the internet in the future, it will primarily be on anonymous accounts and sites that feel seperate from my real life.
I still have another site that I will continue to use, so the dream of the old web continues on for me (but you, dear reader, will have to leave me behind here, unless by some chance you stumble upon my words again). I am of course unable to keep myself from putting all of my rambly thoughts somewhere for people to read - ironic, speaking of privacy, I suppose. I wish you well, whoever you are.