| | I wondered what keeps me online past the recommended internet dosage.
Usually, I get this feeling that there's something awesome that I need to see get done. Here are some things that I am guilty of doing:
-"looking for answers to spiritual questions. Apparently, God is shaping the internets and I'm banking on his divine guidance: the Google search engine. Why not use a more powerful search engine to find answers?" *facepalm*
-"confessing my ardent love. I mean, what's more romantic than than getting a notification that was efficiently typed and transmitted in no time at all? What courage it takes to effortlessly edit! What resolve it takes to click "Send" and to bear the following seconds, minutes, or—gasp—shall I dare say... hours! I mean, handwriting a letter is clearly put to shame by the Times New Roman standard. And you don't have the time to write that letter, or the days it will take to get there. Don't worry that you never told her face to face, because there's clearly no time for that." *facepalm*
-"maintaining a library of all things funny. I must-absolutely-have-to-see every Homestarrunner/xkcd/lolcat cartoon or funny Youtube video in order to be able to quote, without fault, every relevant line for the appropriate situation, despite the fact that people with real lives will not understand what I mean." *facepalm*
-"making sure that I'm there when someone needs to talk to me. aka Facebook notification. How terrible it would be if I missed its occurrence!" *facepalm*
I realized that these things, which kept me at the keyboard, were terrible things to use a computer for and were best done by hand. With real people. With my friends.
And that, now that I think about it, makes my roommate's past writing project about dehumanization all the more relevant: losing touch with the friends we love to be with through communicative technology. |
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