"No place like home." in Open Book

I want to clear up my entry from yesterday...I don't care so much about whether or not people note (we all know I've been a terrible noter as of late)...

I'm just more concerned about who I'm sharing things with and who I'm actually making connections with...This place is just so different from OD...It doesn't have that commUNITY feeling to it like OD had.

I guess what it comes down to is that I share a lot of personal things here and I want to read others that do the same. My time on here is limited and I want to make the best of it...

When I come back after a few days and start going through 50+ entries, I want to read about raw LIFE...I don't want to read 25 entries that are just a couple of sentences long talking about the weather.

I don't mind those entries from time to time (hey I'm guilty of it myself once in a while)...I actually do enjoy talking and reading about weather (especially gorgeous days) or extremes...However, when EVERY entry is like that it gets kind of boring (sorry just being honest).

I think what happened when I got to PB, I started reading a lot of "new" people (people I didn't know from OD) and would stumble upon an awesome entry and then bookmark that person and add them to my friends list...

Well I think a lot of those people have stopped updating, or only update on very limited topics with out any true substance (weather is nice, kids are good, peace out).

I don't know what exactly I'm expecting out of this place...I guess just something a little deeper. FB, Twitter, etc is for the bare basics...

I think a place like this is more for deeper thoughts...Being your true self (most of us have to hide our true thoughts and selves on other social media platforms)...I want to read more about the background stories...I get on FB and see updates of "life is good" or "life sucks."...Great...Tell me WHY life is good or why it sucks...

Also, I like this place because it brings people from all over the world together in one spot...So I want to read about other cultures and other ways of doing things...I want to read how other people LIVE.

I like the entries where people post about a current topic and share their point of view on it. I think the one thing I'm really missing about school and being in the working world is that I miss out on "current events" and how people feel about them. I kinda miss the human connectedness it can bring.

I want to read about how others problem solve and how they view the world. How they interact with those around them...

I want to read about their interests, I want to read about the places they visit (and see pics too). I guess I want a BIG window to the world...I love to "people watch" and this could be a great place for that...

I love reading about others life experiences...Their triumphs and trials. I learn a lot about humanity this way...

I like to watch life unfold...It's so full of surprises, twists, and turns...Just living and breathing is to be taking part of a giant "mystery dinner" or being a main character in a mystery novel (mystery is obviously one of my favorites)...I like suspense. I like ACTION.

I like to have my heart strings tugged once in a while too...When my friends on here cry, I often find myself crying with them. When they laugh, I laugh too.

So anyway...That is basically what I meant when I decided to clean up my bookmarks/friends list (I also don't want lurkers, so I've changed just about everything to friends only). I don't want "surface writers" taking up my personal space and overwhelming me.

I want to be a better noter too. I think by cutting down my list I won't feel so overwhelmed coming here and I'll actually take more time to write out notes instead of just flying through every entry as fast as I can (and then sometimes forgetting what I've read) just to get "caught up."

I didn't mean this to turn into a novel...I also hope this wasn't read as a negative entry (that was not my intention).