There's someone I know who is glued to facebook, so much so you can tell where they are and what they're doing just if you care to look (and thanks to the phone being wired up to facebook) you get constant alerts to their every post! I understand that there's a need for this sort of thing a bit in today's culture but seriously when they've got a child and should be spending time socialising with them rather than living a cyber life and updating every second they can their whereabouts and so on, it really should be put into question. The question that really should be asked whenever blogging or putting a status up online should be 'who cares and is it any of their business?, if it's safe to write and it's good for others to know, that makes sense... if it fails on either point then please do yourself and everyone else a favour and don't bother - it's not that inspiring knowing that you've just turned onto a street or had a snack... not unless you have a serious lack of social skills and you crave knowing someone's movements or eating habits!
I guess if we flash forward 50 or 100 years from now, I wonder and rather pity the poor souls who are left digging through these electronic archives. Gone are any real remnance of an advanced society... we have all this technology and so on and the best we can do is prattle on about what Lady Gaga wore or didn't wear and so on. I just hope they find that some of the writing is amusing and stimulating and not as exciting as a shopping list (although perhaps that will be quite exciting when they're probably won't be some things in existance at that stage...)
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