First Blog, Welcome to Spacehey

Being on here is such a nostalgia trip, it's wild what a difference 11 years makes in a life. The last time that I logged into this site's officially unrelated spiritual predecessor I was a freshly 20 years old and looking forward to a "more mature" social media experience. What I didn't realize was how much I'd eventually grow to miss the expression afforded to me and others by that original platform.

 I rode the wave of MySpace from the time I was an angsty 15 year-old getting into emo music to the time I was a 20 year old who thought he wanted to be a lawyer/indie-rapper/guy in an post-hardcore band (all of these dreams were occuring concurrently). In the time in-between I became a genuine adult. I'm married to the love of my life (it'll be five years in September), I've got a six year-old who is the light of my life, and I've been working for the same company since I was 22.

Thinking back to those years of top 8 drama, finding the perfect profile song, trying to get the perfect angles on my profile pictures I'm filled with a certain sense of wonderment. Why am I nostalgic for a time in my life that I've long since surpassed? I'm much happier now than I ever was in my teenage years and early adulthood, and that's even with the losing of hair and gaining of weight. The only thing I can come up with is that the internet and social media for me used to be a form of escape and expression. Now the internet is without the same sense of wonder and discovery, and in spite of being something I use much more than I did back then, it's not something I really enjoy.

 A timeline clogged with horrible news events and the heartless takes of all the people I went to the internet to get away from in the first place. Ads on ads on ads for t-shirts that appear to be designed by an alien ai that has only been fed the conversations of baby boomers speaking in idioms. The rise of Keeping Up With the Jonses Digital Edition, the sparring of racist relatives against your extended friend group under a BLM post, the pure unadulturated noise with most of the fun and expression filtered out. 

 So I guess all this is just to say, I think it's exactly the FUN that I was missing out on. I miss the interacting with strangers across the globe about music and what cool things they've done with their profile. I miss heartfelt responses to a strangers sad blogpost and the sense of camaraderie that comes with all of that.

 Here's our opportunity to bring all of those things back to a singularly expressive space online. I look forward to seeing what people are able to do. Let's show the rest of the internet how it's done.

 Cheers!