Most recently, (yesterday I think), one of my friends was telling me about how he declared his love for a girl. While I don't usually sit around and take lovey-dovey stuff from my male friends (why? how about its frigging weird?), I kinda have bend it a bit for stuff like this because its usually creative, and I never tire of plagiarising looking for sources of inspiration. So the big story? He asked her on facebook.
I know, right? What is the world coming to, when people actually prefer living in screens and mobile devices, with nothing more expressive than colons and brackets for faces, that living in the real world, talking to real people and well, being fucking normal? I really don't understand why anyone would prefer cyber-intimacy (is that even a thing) compared to face-to-face interaction?
I don't get it. For me, meeting a person and speaking to him/her within a distance of 2 metres is about as good as it gets. There's so much sensory input, you're not confused at all by what they're saying. Even if you are, all tit takes is a glimpse at their face and you're back on track. By the book, the next best thing is a telephone conversation, but for some reason I prefer texting over that. if I had to choose. Phone conversations are a place where silences are never comfortable, unlike salutations in media res. Its understandable, seeing as the purpose of picking up a phone is to talk, but what's life without whimsy?
Even the age old ritual of birthday celebration is now rife with fake emotions. In the past, if you remembered someone's birthday, it meant that you cared, especially if you're a guy, because we're not wired that way. It was actually delighful to have someone wish you, because it meant that they took a little bit of time out of their lives to realise that it was your birthday. Now it just means (most of the time, yes) that they had no life, were poring through facebook for the umpteenth time, and happened to notice your birthday notification. Funny, huh?
I guess my point is that even though social networking makes it possible for us to reach across geographical (and sometimes lexical) barriers, people forget all too soon that it is a means to an end, the end being personal contact. Its not your life, and it certainly shouldn't define it unless you were a work at home mom or a blogger (not a blogging enthusiast, like a profession where it is your day job).
I know, right? What is the world coming to, when people actually prefer living in screens and mobile devices, with nothing more expressive than colons and brackets for faces, that living in the real world, talking to real people and well, being fucking normal? I really don't understand why anyone would prefer cyber-intimacy (is that even a thing) compared to face-to-face interaction?
I don't get it. For me, meeting a person and speaking to him/her within a distance of 2 metres is about as good as it gets. There's so much sensory input, you're not confused at all by what they're saying. Even if you are, all tit takes is a glimpse at their face and you're back on track. By the book, the next best thing is a telephone conversation, but for some reason I prefer texting over that. if I had to choose. Phone conversations are a place where silences are never comfortable, unlike salutations in media res. Its understandable, seeing as the purpose of picking up a phone is to talk, but what's life without whimsy?
Even the age old ritual of birthday celebration is now rife with fake emotions. In the past, if you remembered someone's birthday, it meant that you cared, especially if you're a guy, because we're not wired that way. It was actually delighful to have someone wish you, because it meant that they took a little bit of time out of their lives to realise that it was your birthday. Now it just means (most of the time, yes) that they had no life, were poring through facebook for the umpteenth time, and happened to notice your birthday notification. Funny, huh?
I guess my point is that even though social networking makes it possible for us to reach across geographical (and sometimes lexical) barriers, people forget all too soon that it is a means to an end, the end being personal contact. Its not your life, and it certainly shouldn't define it unless you were a work at home mom or a blogger (not a blogging enthusiast, like a profession where it is your day job).
