Vacuum
I genuinely miss getting phonecalls. Seinfeld had me nostalgic about the days you had to actually be home to be reached. You can reach me at my blackberry at five different email addresses, twitter, aim, facebook, bbm, text, and by phone. Everytime I add something else to my phone the less and less I hear my ringtone. I spend my time clearing my message lists and getting rid of those annoying smiley faces on why screen more than I spend actually finding out how the people I care about are. Filling my time with more and more people and spend less and less time with any of them.
Last night I was having a conversation with someone about the internet. It didn't really start out that way, we began talking about relationships of all kinds (friendships, family, etc...) Which lead us to the internet and how its changed those relationships. The internet is something I don't like to discuss publicly with people because as much as you put yourself out there on here that's pretty much a solo experience. Its you and a browser no matter how many people you contact on here.
There are so many sites like Twitter and Facebook that let you keep up with your "friends" to the minute. You know what they ate, that they were late for the bus, that it's complicated but based off that what do you really know? Absolutely nothing of value. There's no interpersonal connection. No one knows for sure if anyone is listening and 9 times out 10 the people who are, are those who care the least about you. Clocking you and coming up with their own ideas about why you are the way you are. There is absolutely nothing of value on the internet just fancy ways to pretend you're keeping up with a friendship when really what you're doing is sitting at home keeping up with Kardashians. I sit at my computer and I check my blogroll, twitter, facebook, myspace, niketalk, ntkl, all of my emails. At the end of the day I have contributed my time and effort and I have gotten back nothing and accomplished nothing.
Now I won't sit here and pretend like the internet doesn't have its merits because it does and I won't get into them because you know them all but as far as something that contributes to the human condition I don't see any of its merits. I want to fall back from 99 percent of it but I know I won't.
Last night I was having a conversation with someone about the internet. It didn't really start out that way, we began talking about relationships of all kinds (friendships, family, etc...) Which lead us to the internet and how its changed those relationships. The internet is something I don't like to discuss publicly with people because as much as you put yourself out there on here that's pretty much a solo experience. Its you and a browser no matter how many people you contact on here.
There are so many sites like Twitter and Facebook that let you keep up with your "friends" to the minute. You know what they ate, that they were late for the bus, that it's complicated but based off that what do you really know? Absolutely nothing of value. There's no interpersonal connection. No one knows for sure if anyone is listening and 9 times out 10 the people who are, are those who care the least about you. Clocking you and coming up with their own ideas about why you are the way you are. There is absolutely nothing of value on the internet just fancy ways to pretend you're keeping up with a friendship when really what you're doing is sitting at home keeping up with Kardashians. I sit at my computer and I check my blogroll, twitter, facebook, myspace, niketalk, ntkl, all of my emails. At the end of the day I have contributed my time and effort and I have gotten back nothing and accomplished nothing.
Now I won't sit here and pretend like the internet doesn't have its merits because it does and I won't get into them because you know them all but as far as something that contributes to the human condition I don't see any of its merits. I want to fall back from 99 percent of it but I know I won't.
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4.23.2009
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