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Maybe I am too old (though I doubt it) but I do not get the appeal in notifying every minute of my life to the social world via wireless devices. I think it’s funny; you go out to a nice restaurant for a nice dinner, you are in the middle of a delicious meal or a good conversation and then (DING) a brilliant idea strikes you to tell your entire contact list this ordinary event- from your high school peeps to co-workers to friends of friends-and you take out your phone (a gadget you never go ANYWHERE without because, duh, you have a life!) and open your web browser which is probably set to go to Facebook or Twitter straight away and you type in your ‘status’ box, “I’m at…. The Marquee @ 8:52 pm”. I hope you didn’t forget your collared t-shirt.
It makes me laugh. I’ll admit, I have a Facebook profile, I was actually one of the few of us that started our profiles when it was called The Facebook and a college ID was required to subscribe. I check it a few times a week and I use it for keeping in touch with my friends that I don’t see very much and wish to keep in contact with. I think it is silly though, the fad that it has turned into. What is the point of doing something fun and extraordinary when you have to pull out your wireless device and tell the world exactly where you are at the exact time you were there? I once saw a Facebook status that said, “I just want to stay here alone looking at my ceiling… it’s so peaceful.” How ironic that at your most valued moments of privacy, you need to involve the rest of the world.
My phone doesn’t do anything special. I don’t have the internet, I don’t have a keyboard and the camera (when it works) takes pictures as if the object were moving and in the dark. I love my phone. It does exactly what I ask of it. It allows me to communicate when I want to, which most of the time, I don’t. But I swear, soon enough, the newest technology will start installing wireless internet in places that are only meant to stay concealed. How long do you think it will be until surgical procedures will involve probing our bodies with an antennae that will allow us to tell all of the world wide web that we are at The Marquee at 8:57 pm. I think I fear this more than the apocalypse.
It may seem that I have become more cynical; I haven’t, I am just voicing it now. I think you all are silly and I don’t care that you were at the Marquee at 8:57 pm. And really, who does care? I would think that the people who you would want to know those things would either be there with you, or you would extend the invitation before 8:57 |
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| Posted: January 15, 2011 at 4:19 pm |
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| Amen to you sista! And I am older and not so techni-savy. I have a phone that does more than I'll ever know and all I want to do is call and text my peeps and play solitare. I'll keep my private moments to myself thank you. (Or share them with you) |
| Posted by: Auntie Em | Posted: Jan. 15, 2011 @ 4:56 pm |
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| Yep, seriously. I don't get it either. I realized the other day that I never post on FB, and I bet I hardly ever will. I do have a few friends who are obsessed with it, and that's ok. I just laugh whenever I see that someone just "checked in" somewhere. I'm waiting to see that someone checks into the bathroom... :) You know as well as I do it will happen someday!! |
| Posted by: Jaime | Posted: Jan. 15, 2011 @ 9:29 pm |
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| I agree, peoples obsession with feeling that they have to notify EVERYONE what they are doing at all times absolutely bewilders me. It's those postings, as well as the constant postings about how they are almost done building their barns on farmville that keep me away from sites like facebook.
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| Posted by: Dana | Posted: Jan. 16, 2011 @ 1:03 pm |
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| could not agree more... and i just laughed so hard while reading this. It saddens me that my phone will one day die and then i will be forced by the phone companies to get internet on my phone!! I dread that day because facebook is an obsession and I admit I am on it way more than I should be and I DO NOT want that everywhere with me! |
| Posted by: nicole | Posted: Jan. 23, 2011 @ 12:30 pm |
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