My Confusion and I

So there's been a while since my last post because there's been a few difficult months that I'm sure I one day will be ready to share but until then... As my mid-twenties crises I joined a book club. The first book we read was The Circle by Dave Eggers. I will not explain the story line in detail but basically a girl starts working for a company that is called the Circle which is in a way controlling social media. As you might imagine this book raises a lot of questions about what is public and what isn't. Before you continue reading you should know that this post will have lots of spoilers, not because that will actually change much when you read it since it is a very predictable book. Let's start of with the way the book is written; the language was extremely poor. I enjoy reading books where you can almost see the people and places in front of you but in this book there wasn't much to go on. It also bothered me that there was no chapters. I know that is a ...

I recently experienced something that many people would be uncomfortable with, things about me got exposed online by another person. It wasn't anything particularly bad and there was actually no proof it was about me except for the fact that I knew it was. This made me uncomfortable for several reasons, one was I wasn't expecting to see it and it was a bit of a surprise since I didn't believe it was that person's right to share that with the world but to be honest, it wasn't something I couldn't cope with. After all, no one could actually trace it back to me. The thing that struck me harder was the things people post online without realising that it will have consequences. I am not going to write what was posted or what other people have posted on the same space because that is not up to me to tell the world but I feel the need to inform my readers and hopefully people around the world what internet does to the private. One thing people seem to forget when the...

We live in a world where we are constantly told what to think, say and do. Social media feeds us opinions that creates a world where we don't have to make up our minds or even be able to explain why we have our certain opinions. I can't seem to go one single day without seeing a post on Facebook or Twitter about moral issues such as vegetarianism, religion, feminism, peace in the middle east or gay rights. It's turned into a machine that thinks for me and tries to push these ideologies on to me without me even realising that what I'm doing is being a sheep, following the herd. This has created a problem, we all have opinions about everything but they are not our own opinions. As a woman who believe in equal rights but isn't one of those women that keep a poster of Rosie the Riveter in my room, I often get the need to say that I am not a feminist. But then again, I believe in equal rights which pretty much makes me a feminist so why don't I speak up? Why don...