Today I figure it's time to talk about social networking, and how I feel it's making us as a whole a lot more antisocial. With all the technology available to us; YIM, IRC, MSN, MOUSE...
Admittedly I made the last one up. However, if this were Twitter, that is all I'd be able to post. 140 characters. There are many problems with things like twitter and facebook and myspace that seem to ensnare us in their grasp. Granted, I did myspace for a bit and I do have a facebook account, but more and more I see that people are seeming to use these media to replace face-to-face conversation. You don't ask someone what they're doing tonight, you check their twitter feed. Wanting to know who's going to homecoming? there's probably at least two Facebook groups talking about it. In this day and age of technology, if people want something, chances are you can find it without asking a single real person.
Now I am not saying that we should spurn all technology made after 1900 and go the way of the Amish; it makes no sense to have all this technology available and not use it. Email, for one, is a fantastic device that I feel has had very little downside for the advancement of society. You still have to use proper grammar, syntax, and formatting to make an impression to a potential employer or business partner.
All in all, these programs are tools. They need to be used as such, not as extensions of our own lives. There are plenty of ways to escape the reality in which we live in without having to subject everyone to every aspect of your life.
There are some things that are best left untold.
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