In this high tech age there is no end of ways to communicate it seems; Facebook, MySpace, iPhone, internet, Twitter, my word, you can even call somebody on the regular telephone or heaven forbid, write a letter. My sister was so excited to give me her new email address at her home computer that she just got and I had to tell her that the reason I wasn't as quick to answer her emails was that I was spending so much time on facebook these days. Facebook? "What the heck is facebook?",cries she with much drama and chagrin. Laura Ingalls would be astonished at how far we've come in the 100 or so years since she was teaching the 3 R's in that little school house on the prairie.
I hope that with all our advancement we aren't losing touch with each other though. I wonder if when we see an old friend that we've been "facebooking" with for a few months or maybe years, will we feel as close as we would if we had actually been talking or maybe writing our words on actual paper and putting stamps on envelopes and carefully editing what we say to each other? Even the shorthand that we use when emailing or texting on cellphones seems to me a way of shortchanging our friends. I can't help but correct my spelling and try my best to use proper English. I feel like I owe my friends my best when I am communicating with them.
I guess all this comes from the fact that right in the midst of my new facebook obsession, I discovered a Tarrant High School website and spent a couple of hours today building a profile and searching for people I knew. Why are we so fascinated with finding our past? Maybe it has something to do with holding off the inevitability of the future and our own demise? Wow. That sounds like a dark thing when I really don't think I have a grave fear of the future, maybe the ravages of time, but not the eventual end of it all. I know how that is going to turn out and it will be glorious and much better than we have it here.
Didn't mean for this to turn into a rant. Auburn should get it's season in gear and maybe I'd be in a brighter mood!
I hope that with all our advancement we aren't losing touch with each other though. I wonder if when we see an old friend that we've been "facebooking" with for a few months or maybe years, will we feel as close as we would if we had actually been talking or maybe writing our words on actual paper and putting stamps on envelopes and carefully editing what we say to each other? Even the shorthand that we use when emailing or texting on cellphones seems to me a way of shortchanging our friends. I can't help but correct my spelling and try my best to use proper English. I feel like I owe my friends my best when I am communicating with them.
I guess all this comes from the fact that right in the midst of my new facebook obsession, I discovered a Tarrant High School website and spent a couple of hours today building a profile and searching for people I knew. Why are we so fascinated with finding our past? Maybe it has something to do with holding off the inevitability of the future and our own demise? Wow. That sounds like a dark thing when I really don't think I have a grave fear of the future, maybe the ravages of time, but not the eventual end of it all. I know how that is going to turn out and it will be glorious and much better than we have it here.
Didn't mean for this to turn into a rant. Auburn should get it's season in gear and maybe I'd be in a brighter mood!
Labels: A rant on technology
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