The Several Reasons that I am Actually Going to Start Using a Blog.

Let's flashback to 2010, or 2011, or whenever the heck the incident to which I am about to refer was. As a joke, one day, I made a blog entitled "That Eric Kid," and I put a link to it on Facebook. Some of you may remember, and some of you are probably learning of this for the first time, but this link on my Facebook wall (that's what we had before the timeline, for the newbies) inspired public outrage. I was bombarded with posts like "Not cool man!" and "Why'd you get a stupid blog, man!?" and "Keep just using Facebook notes, man!" and "This is totally really stupid and stuff, man!"

If anybody had bothered to click the link they would have seen a post that said "Hahaha, just kidding, I'm not getting a blog!" or something of that nature.

So why, you may be asking, has your friend and neighbor JJ Smudski once again gotten a blog which, from the looks of it, is actually serious this time? Well, I'll tell you! In list form, of course. The main idea of each reason will be highlighted, but the main ideas are mostly misleading, so I'd suggest reading the entire reason for each item. I know, effort, but hey, I haven't written for the internet in a while, so be kind, and shut your complaining mouth up.

1. Hipsters have blogs. It should be noted that I am not a hipster, nor am I aiming to be one, nor do I want to be one. But let's look at a few similarities I have with hipsters: I wear plaid, I wear beanies, and I like apple products. By getting a blog, I am once again attempting to take things that are clearly claimed by the hipsters of the world, and make them mainstream by doing them as well.
2. I have a lot of notes on Facebook. To be exact, I've written 355, including surveys. That is obnoxious. Sure, a lot of people like to have easy access to my writings due to their availability on the world's most visited website, but I'd rather they be somewhere else. I'd prefer that this "somewhere" had a better organization system for my writings, because, in the event that I want to find something I wrote on Facebook 2 years ago, I have to scroll through like 22 pages of Notes before I find it. Blogs are easier, and if you're that obsessed with my writing that you need easy access to it... then bookmark this page. Duh.
3. I hate Facebook these days. Oh yeah, there's that too.
4. I could use Tumblr as a blog, but Tumblr is more-so about pictures, gifs, and music than it is about actual blogging. It's not a place for my writing because "TL;DR" is a common mindset there, and I have quite a few words to say about specific subjects. I'm not putting my rambling rants on a place where ADD runs rampant!
5. I hate it when people talk about politics. ...On Facebook. I know, I know, I am guilty of doing this... in like '08 and '09, but I have since changed for the better, and I no longer even so much as mention the topic on Facebook. I, however, LOVE to rant about politics, and I'd really like to have a non-Facebook place to do that. Mostly because my opinions aren't always the most popular, but I'd really like to explain them to people, just so that they can understand my viewpoint, but on Facebook, people don't read political things to understand, they read political things to argue, for example, this post on the wall of Susan G. Komen For The Cure's fan page. If you're here, it's less likely that an argument will start.
6. I love writing. This one is pretty straightforward.
7. I really don't care what you think. Call it apathetic, call it rude, call it whatever the heck you want, I don't care. I'm specifically referring the whole "DON'T GET A STUPID BLOG!" thing, but it applies to other things to. But honestly, I do not care what you think, as long as it's about me.

And that just about sums it up. If you're still here and still want to stay? KUDOS, and enjoy the new blog. :)