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Thursday, only a day away from the weekend, yey! I have not had much time to write on my blog, sorry, I have been un-inspired to rant or anything else for that matter. I got this in my mail today, really funny, I guess it’s a bit true… I can be pretty stupid sometimes but I;m not sure I could relate my stupidity to technology haha… but anyway, let’s see how guilty you are!.
1. You accidentally type your password onto your microwave. 2. Or accidentally type your pin number as your password. 3. You have not played solitaire with real cards in years. 4. You have a list of 15 telephone numbers to contact your family that is composed of only 3 people. 5. You send an e-mail to the person sitting next to you, or even worse, you IM them! 6. The reason why you have lost touch with your family is because they do not have an e-mail address. 7. You are stuck in traffic and you use your mobile phone to check your mail, see who’s online and change your status on Facebook. 9. Each TV commercial has its web page address flashing at the bottom of the screen. 10. Leaving the house without a mobile phone, which you never had for your first 20 years, makes you panic and run back for it. 11. You wake up every morning and go online before you drink your coffee. 12. You never tell jokes anymore, you just forward them. 13. You’re looking around you to make sure no one is noticing that you’re smiling like an idiot in front of your PC. 14. Worse than that, you already know exactly who you’re going to send this to! 15. You have become so stupid by reading this that you did not notice that point #8 is missing on this list. 16. And now I bet you have looked back to see that effectively number 8 is not there (you idiot!) 17. And now you’re just laughing at yourself, and why is that? (hah!… cuz you’re stupid!) 18. And don’t say no, you know you are very guilty, just laugh at yourself and have a great day!
Social networking has become such a big thing now a days, from the outdated Hi5 to Facebook and Twitter, people are constantly online just browsing, searching and digging about each other. I’m also guilty of doing this of course, and as I constantly browse and read online about the latest on Internet, I begin to realize how much of a phenomenon this has become. Logging onto Facebook is almost the same as poking your head into someone’s room to see how they’re doing on a daily basis.
Social scientists call this “ambient awareness”, the need to be physically near someone and pick up on their mood through the little things they do, body language, sighs, comments. I personally love to do this, I love to observe people and human nature, there is so much you can learn from someone by just watching them, the little things they do, their routine. But I also believe this has a great downside, this constant “watching” can become addictive when you’re online and it begins to pull you away from reality.
I read an interesting article last night about how Facebook got started in the Harvard campus a few years ago. It stated that people over the age of 30 could just find it absurd to describe their daily activities in detail on a daily basis, as well as follow others, but then again, most of the people I know (including myself) on these networks, they are all over 30! It has become a new routine in our lives, a break in the day to log on to the rhythms of our friends in a way we never have before. Read the rest of this entry »
