One: First Page (07-07-2022)
This first post will serve to explain the purpose of and reason for this website. In as few words as possible: a repository for the same ramblings that other social media accounts have hosted, and an alternative to social media that lacks prescribed formatting. Also I have so much time at work and my boss gets mad if we're on our phones but at least the google sites editor looks vaguely like I'm working.
In general I'm trying to move away from using social media platforms that allow major data collection and tracking and require content moderation, so I've decided to switch to hosting a site via a service that does the same thing. From here it looks like the future of the internet is not being allowed to do anything fun, which will arrive shortly on twitter and my (soon to be banned) instagram account, whereas this website will be read by no one and therefore will never be deleted or cause problems until an employer tracks it down or I run out of money to pay for the domain.
To pad out word count and kill another 5 minutes, the choice of "mewswebsite" was actually a lucky break considering the domain was available. Has no one yet made a parody of "newswebsite" or is the concept not that funny? Seems it covers a lot of the bases of online humor like silly non sequitur, cats cause it sounds like meow, and mews being a homophone of muse. Also I personally recall many memories of going to a doctor in a terrible and lifeless office development branded "Mews" after the English converted carriagehouse street phenomenon, although in America any attempt at cute, honest development must be perverted, so the lovely English street manifested as too-small buildings entrenched in silly winding parking lots with copious speed bumps to prevent the inevitable pedestrian collision at any number of sharp turns or speed-tempting straight aways. The similarity to MWS of meanworldsyndrome is a nice coincidence.
Maybe there's a point to be made about ME world syndrome here, especially since this site is the less public alternative to the vain world of oversharing that plagues instagram. Instagram also does not appreciate the meanworldsyndrome account's penchant for graphic or politically charged images, so periodic suspensions under the threat of permanent ban are unbearably frequent. It's obvious that whatever tiny fraction of people who keep up with the account will probably not migrate to manually viewing a website that does not bark at them and is not designed to keep them attached and addicted, but on the off chance that any of meanworldsyndrome's loyal followers make it here, please stay.
My plans for this website are none. Avoiding this site becoming a whiny journal of political opinions and Paul Skallas-level near brain dead cultural critique will be hard, but for a while, at least until my life is more interesting than 8 hours a day at a computer and 2 hours a day on the train, it'll be all I can muster. When there's time to ramble or something to talk about, it'll get a new page. Trawling for images for a 200 follower mood board account stopped being fun 10 gigs of storage ago. Short form content will continue on twitter to what measly following is there.
Retroactively titled 7-22-2022