My digital egoism is now indisputable

There it is: the milestone of narcissism.

I’ve reached that mythical goal of 1,000 photos of me on Facebook.

Me! 1,000 pictures that family can laugh at, girls can stare at, and I can hide behind.

Our photos tell so much about who we are, and yet, as we continue to amass such a gargantuan collection, Facebook needs to find a better way to organize them. Perhaps on a calendar, sorted into folders by month. Perhaps by keywords.

Simply put, scrolling through 1,000 photos to find the one I want to see is boggling.

So, I’ve hit the 1,000 mark. What’s next?

100 videos of me. Where will I be when that benchmark is reached?

It took me three and a half years to collect 1,000 pictures. And Thanksgiving Day with my family was what finally boosted me to that magical number. The winning photograph, you see, is the one in the picture above.

There’s nothing like being with family and friends when you reach a goal.

Filed under: Digitalism

I’m single!?

I just made a major decision.

It took me more than three years to do it, and now that I have, I’m not sure what exactly to expect.

I changed my relationship status from blank to “Single.”

One word. And I’ve been afraid of it for so long.

But what does it mean for me? Probably nothing.

I know, I know, this is Lee. I should have posted a relationship status on the first day of my freshman year. This is a campus where a man may pursue a lady, not the other way around.

Perhaps that means that nothing will change. Or maybe things could turn around…

But why would I do this? What would prompt me, possibly one of the least-committed people in the world, to indicate that I’m “single?”

If I haven’t been able to handle a relationship in the last three, okay, 21 years, then what makes me eligible now?

It was a whim. A whim based on an underlying cognitive and uncoordinated trend that has been ripped out of a theoretical construct in some textbook somewhere.

So, I’m back at Lee. When at Lee, do as the Flames do.

Filed under: Digitalism, Humor