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The Loncz Family

 

The Middle Ages (700 AD-1400 AD) are referred to as Dark Ages because the historical artifacts one would expect from that era either didn't survive or are inadequate. A colleague of mine shared that our current digital age might "be lost" due to future data retrieval problems. We are so caught up in the Digital Age that if everything that requires power suddenly failed (cell phones, computers, data servers) future generations would look at us and wonder how we left inadequate records.

In 2007, I claimed the domain loncz.com and posted updates about our family -- Mostly photos with funny and cute commentary (at least I thought so.) Our little girl was born and I wanted to share milestones and provide an archive of her life. I enjoyed the tempo of being able to update as I saw fit, and I believe the only criticism of visitors was that I didn't update frequent enough. Just a few years later, as our son was born, Facebook soared into popularity and I adandonded loncz.com and embraced the easier-to-update platform.

Facebook did everything I was doing in an easier forum. Instead of uploading a photo from my digital camera, accessing the web page and posting content, all I had to do was take a picture with my cell phone and share content. I scrapped loncz.com and embraced the new technology. The convenience at that time offset the fact that my then state-of-the-art phone's shoddy camera resolution only looked great on a 3" screen and lacked the quality necessary to use it for anything other than posting to Facebook. Unfortunately, even though I had a DSLR camera, the convenience to capture the moment with my phone usually won-out. But that's not my biggest regret in adopting Facebook and it took me too many years to realize it. My occasional updates at loncz.com morphed into an addiction of sharing content that saw posting and reading of countless trivial posts. There was an expectancy to share something new which only fed the vicious cycle to check posts and respond to updates.


I quit Facebook cold-turkey and have never looked back. I should erase my account, but that would entail me logging in. A small part of me misses Facebook because I recognize people use it as their means to communicate, and I wonder how many major events in family and friends' lives I have missed. It's a different age and I accept the instant gratification social media provides and society's adoption of less personal communication. However, I hold out hope that if someone feels something is worth sharing, they reach out to me personally.

So now I am full-circle. You will not see updates here that replace a personal exchange that I feel is important between people. If we need to get a message out, you will hear from us. If it's an invitation to our annual pig roast, or our digital Christmas "card," we will contact you and link you to this site. Do not expect this site to be a daily messenger. Instead, we will use loncz.com as a means to archive our life -- Oh, how I look forward to chronicling how blessed I have been.