For a while, I was importing this blog into my facebook account, but I later chose to stop because I was uncomfortable doing so. Was it fear of how others will judge me for my thoughts? Maybe. At least that’s what originally justified the decision. But looking back, my discomfort with the writing here being posted on Facebook is that it doesn’t fit in.
Facebook is purely social. People behave and interact differently on Facebook. Conversations are casual and playful. When people log on to Facebook, they expect to see what they’re friends are doing in life, where they spent their weekend and what they currently like. Information that would be boring to everyone else but friends. This blog contains none of that, nor is it usually playful. It interferes with expectations.
When expectations are challenged, people become surprised. Surprise leads to curiosity because there it’s inconsistency between an expectation and an observation. Whenever someone is surprised about some subject, their view of that subject (in this case, you who surprised them) is called to be rewritten. If you happen to like the how things are, then it’s discomforting to think that it will change.
