Becoming Digitally Intimate

Social networking has become such a big thing now a days, from the outdated Hi5 to Facebook and Twitter, people are constantly online just browsing, searching and digging about each other.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 »

Speachless

Another thing I found on Facebook today, no idea why this image was attached to the bottom of some application haha… this one really leaves me speachless LOL, other than the fact that this weekend I just have not been inspired to write, much less tonight. An image like this one anyway, kinda just speaks for itself haha! Thought it would come in handy for whoever is looking for something in written LOL. Enjoy!

Oh and just a quick note, if you want to comment on my blog, please make sure that English is your first language and that you actually understand what i’m writing about. If you just wish to express your personal opinion towards me I suggest you keep it to yourself because I honestly do not give a rat’s ass! LOL

Are you interested?

I think I still cannot get over the shock of this silly “Are you interested” app on Facebook. Yes, yes, yes I added it once and I admit that I ran through it a few times, hey it’s a great outlet when you’re bored on a rainy night. All women have imagined themselves in front of a line of men where they can just pick and choose without hurting anybody’s feelings, this is so like that! So anyhooo, I actually ended up deleting the thing because it was just plain stupid. Now I still keep getting these mails one after another, after another, somebody has clicked on me! So today I took another look and honestly, are these people for real?

a) Take Malek for example, he’s 42 and he’s from no idea where (PS?). His description said something like, “I’m a looser”, or at least that’s what I understood from the bunch of crap he wrote. Does he really think a girl is going to go for that faceless yucky hairy chest??

b) Then there’s Wayne, poor Wayne, 47 and from Australia, does Wayne really even look 47? Does this old man really think a 37 year old girl from Costa Rica is going to click back? Oh yes, I’d love to have a long distance relationship with a 60 yr old man thousands of miles away.

c) And Julian, from Taipei with the game-show-host-like photo, I won’t even get started on this one.

d) Dennis, Dennis, Dennis, the red neck with the long hair from Florida, dude, is that hair for real? I’m really hoping that this pic is from way back in the 90’s and not an updated one because he sure is going to have a very hard time to get some chick to click back on him here LOL

e) And finally, Wayno! who in the world has a name like that? Dude, again, you are 28, live in Liberia somewhere and you’re clicking on a 37 yr old chick from Costa Rica, get a grip!

Maybe all guys at some point also dream of having an imaginary line-up of women, but after taking one look at this list of guys, I will for sure never ever click on this ever again. I mean, what can we really know about a person by their picture? Yes I’m the one being judgmental today, but honestly, just one look at this line-up of photos, and I just had to blog about it!