into the void

 I created my first blogspot when I was around 13 or so. My dad is a computer technician, and he gifted me an old laptop the company he worked for no longer needed. I grew up with the internet, side by side. As it progressed, I did - Myspace when I was 11, Facebook when I was 13, Twitter when I was 14, Snapchat when I was 16, Instagram when I was 17, etc. It felt like the beginnings, us all testing the waters with social media. YouTube seemed like it was always there (at least it was when I got the laptop). Staying up late stuck in cycles of watching tragedy unfold on released cc footage. The worst escalator accidents, amusement park fatalities, hey, here - watch the video of the first on air suicide, and over here, people put cereal in their ass and call it fruitlooping (that one was passed around in the school cafeteria, after smart phones became the new norm as I was in high school).  It all existed and we all existed within it - but first, before any of that, I remember blogspot an