*Tap tap* Is This Thing On?
Joey is reading a magazine called ppaper, and she tells me about an article about Facebook and Google, and the Internet and how it should tie us altogether to be closer, but it goes onto say that it just isn’t happening.
After the latest awful redesign Facebook has now officially become rubbish. The holy water is just not there any more.
Socialising and friendship has become a TV show. There is something not quite real about this brave new world of passive virtual friendships, and I am completely sick of Facebook and Twitter. They should bring people closer together, but Twitter is only popular because it has a few candid celebrities on it.
Why be passive when you can be actively involved in your friendships? Why just sit back and watch like a voyeur would watch a porno?
Most people have no choice. Whilst at work, maybe you have a boring moment and maybe check Facebook for a few seconds. You pet your virtual dog, post something you think is witty, browse some photos of your friends getting drunk in a dark room, then you leave work late and don’t have any time to spend with your real dog or your real friends and family. I don’t like the way this use of technology is going.
The blame doesn’t lie at our door, it’s just the way the world is going. It’s quite scary really, how it’s taken advantage of our nature.
Rather than broadening and enriching our lives, some things are starting to eat away at it. Rather than meeting face to face we’re trapped on the end of a cable, and whilst Joey and I use it as a life line until I go to Taiwan in May, the surprising thing is the much shorter cable between one side of a town and the other splits the neighbourhood, empties the pubs and flats and sucks any debate or social interaction into electronic oblivion.
I am glad I have met a girlfriend who sees the world as clearly and as logically as I do.
The world may be in trouble, but we’re okay. We are now freed.
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