Why do people constantly feel the need to update their status on facebook and twitter to tell people what they are doing every second of the day? It seems entirely unnecessary. Is it the people are afraid that they are not connected to others without this? Or is it simply the fact that sports-stars, and music stars started to do it that it became a trend?
Also, what are with all the apps that facebook now has. It used to be such a simple site where people could connect with old friends from high school or college. Now it has turned into this craze where you get 12 different requests a day asking for either silly Mafia Wars, where you "kill" people, or even fake food fights. It all seems to pointless, and quite sad that people spend so many hours a day on this site, that they can't find anything else to occupy their time with. Will it eventually come down to us never leaving our computer chair, and we just communicate through the internet and experience life through it as well?
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I still use it for communication. I think because we live in an era of cell phones that can do everything facebook and twitter is on the list of where we go online. My girlfriend checks facebook before her email. I think she uses it as the fun part of her day. It is relaxing, funny, and not stressful not like life.
ReplyDeleteI really like this post because of your hypothetical thought at the end: "Will it eventually come down to us never leaving our computer chair, and we just communicate through the internet and experience life through it as well?" All I could think about after reading that was the cartoon movie WALL-E, for those who haven't seen it, the movie portrays something very close to this. Where humans abandon the earth because it's so polluted and live in space floating around on hover chairs. They gain all information from a computer screen in front of them and never leave their chairs. Hopefully THAT will never happen but with all of the tweeting and facebooking will the world eventually come down to just interacting through the internet? I hope not and I don't think so...
ReplyDeletepeople need to update to keep their mind entertaining or start a conversation based on it and find things to do, whether its stalk people or make plans for later, in the end its all entertainment
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