Can anyone remember when people used to go out and buy stationary to write letters on? I didn't realize how many potential phone calls I
don't make. So much easier to text or email. No conversation needed.I think deep down I never really liked having to be on the phone. Modern technology caters to that considerable part of me that is shy and private. Yet... there is the bizarre need to be popular. Hmmm... what to do? And that's when you realize that all the cool kids have a MySpace account and you have to have one too! I can remember how obsessed I got with adding "friends" to the profile that Billy designed for us with all the intensity and dedication of a brain surgeon. It could never be enough just to add our actual friends. Oh no. You're nobody until you have 20,000 people you've never met on your list.You know it's important because you start judging other people's profiles by their friend number.
"Their band must not be so good...only 8,000 friends." Then you suspect others might be as shallow as you've now become so you add MORE friends. By this time something else twisted has set in. What if they don't accept my friend request?! Don't act like you don't care. You know you do. Does it mean I'm not cool enough? That's when it dawns on you that you're
not cool because MySpace is sooooo two days ago and all your "friends" are on Facebook. More profile designing, more friend adding. And those numbers better be high. I can remember the days when I was ecstatic just to have a website. Now it's all I can do to juggle husband, child, home, career, and how many people wrote on our wall or poked us. Not one to be outdone, I flexed my politically savvy muscles and joined Twitter... and of course added "friends". What is really going on here? It's not as if we don't already have a million things to do each day. Do we truly have time to upload every move we make from our mobile phones? The internet has become the new school yard complete with cool kids, nerds, and jocks, etc. How many winking blinking gadgety things do you have on
your page? But I'm not in school anymore and quite frankly didn't behave this way when I was. I jump up and down like a maniac when another person "likes" (thumbs up) our Meet The Blanks fan page, I track the ratings on each of our YouTube videos like Dorothy on tornado watch, and don't EVEN get me started on how high I need my score to be each week on Bejeweled Blitz! What's
that about? Is this really connecting? Or have we just childishly developed a slick, high tech way of saying na na na nee na na? Maybe I don't want to know. So here's the deal... if you're visiting this blog for the first time or even if you've seen it before, don't forget to click the Follow This Blog button before you go. All the
cool kids have a lot of followers.
