Tuesday, October 5, 2010

The Interwebs.

I just got back from the movie 'The Social Network' It's about the guy who invented Facebook, and basically how it came to be what it is today. It's kind of sad to think that our generation is so focused on technology and the internet, but it's true. We're lost without it. I know that I personally check my Facebook routinely throughout the day, more or less depending on what I'm doing. It's not like it's That interesting, but we have this desire and need to know what our friends and family are doing. It's almost to a point where we're obsessed with knowing everything going on in each other's lives. Same thing with cell phones. I lost mine last week, and just not having it for a couple days was making me go crazy. My entire life seems to be on my phone or the internet. My contacts, my friends, my pictures, my messages, music, everything. Anything and everything is connected to the computer. It's kind of sick how much of yourself is out there for everything to see, but I'm kind of a hypocrite in saying that because I won't get rid of anything either. I have Facebook. I have Twitter. I have a blog. I have a LastFM. I have a Flickr. Everything. Our generation has become addicted to knowing what's going on, and how much we share with others. Facebook isn't our diary. Some things aren't supposed to be shared with everyone. But again, look at me being a hypocrite as I'm blogging about my life to random strangers on the internet who don't know me, nor care about what i say most of the time. I'm not saying that it's going to change, or that I'm going to change, I'm just pointing out how weird it is. Lots of times I'll be telling my friend a story and it will involve what I said on twitter or what my Facebook status was. Or knowing if I'm in a relationship or not based on my Facebook relationship status. What's with that? or making it "Facebook Official". Sad but true. Even as we speak, I'm getting agitated that the Facebook server is down and I can't go down, and I'm tweeting about how angry it's making me, while texting my boy that I'm sitting on the computer blogging, and frustrated with Facebook. I'm woven into the technology addiction too. Facebook is an addiction. Making status' and sending friends messages and seeing friend's pictures, and sharing pictures, and getting tagged in them, and liking pictures and friend's status'. It's insane really how much Facebook is a part of our lives. So that's my ramble. Kind of went in a big circle and now I'm thinking of something else and have lost my train of thought... so, back to trying to get on Facebook.

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