I think more than I should about my facebook status line.
When I have random flashes of inspiration throughout the day, I'm often tempted to run to the computer and broadcast my vitally important message to my facebook friends. Then, I have to remind myself that the majority of life -- no, the entirety of it -- lies right before my eyes and not behind my computer screen.
It's kind of sad, actually, that I pick up a good amount of my gossip from what my friends say in these daily, sometimes hourly little sentences on their facebooks.
But it's such a wonderful concept. How did our parents ever cope without it? I have a hard time understanding how they could possibly have led fulfilling young lives without knowing what that one guy from their eighth grade class did last Friday night. And how did they survive without the knowledge that their high school classmate's younger sister believes she has the BESSST MOST AMAZING BOYFRIEND in the ENTIRE WORLD!!!!!?
The internet's a beautiful thing. I just think it's disturbingly easy to hand over all your precious spare hours to looking at photos of distant friends' baby nieces or polishing up your "About Me" section. But maybe that's just me.
But I'll stop myself here. I love the internet way too much to ridicule it any longer. It's difficult to imagine a life without Wikipedia, Mapquest, Pandora, or of course those ingenious little status updates.
I just wonder what the next big thing will be ... When the internet gets old, what will my kids be wondering what I could have ever lived without? I'm almost afraid to find out.
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2 comments:
I agree with you that it's way too easy to watch time fly by while on the interwebs. Not only that, but I've had it happen to me on many occasions where I get on to check my email or do homework and an hour later I've done neither....Sometimes I think the internet was created for those with A.D.D. only because the distractions are everywhere.
I got to the point where I found out I spent more time in a virtual environment than in the physical world. So I stepped back a bit and started living in what could be dated as the B.M. (before myspace) technological era, and found out it's not so bad. The only thing I really lost was the instant gratification of knowing the latest gossip, but ehh gossip is gossip.
All this made me wonder about what the future will hold. Will we lose our humanity by becoming virtual zombies? At what point will virtual worlds cross into the real world and become "reality"? I shudder at this possibility and hope it never happens.
Good post by the way.
Oh, and have you ever read Brave New World?
Thanks Gerardo!
Yeah, I read Brave New World in high school. Ha ha, well, I sincerely hope that's not our future. I mean, I kind of like humans acting like ... humans.
and yeah, I agree. Seriously, it's shocking how much time we spend online. Right now, for instance. =P It's pretty difficult to quit at this point.
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