“Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of 5 billion strangers.”
Robert A. Heinlein
I am thinking of once again rejoining Facebook, Spacebook or whatever it is called in order to join the mundane lives of those who have nothing else to do. Mind you, I used to be on it and the first thing that happened is someone wondered if I was interested in her mother but I might have been mistaken. As if my social interaction at that point wasn’t enough, I received my first text, which stated she (whoever she was) was out of the shower (without clothes) and was waiting for me to come over. Seriously, these were my first encounters of the social media kind. I immediately abandoned them all and probably should have thrown away my cellphone as well.
Well, needless to say, I made an even bigger mistake, which I am not proud of but have the humility to admit to. Yup, that’s right. I purchased a smartphone that unfortunately is (ouch, this hurts) smarter than any human on the planet including me. I have to imagine about the time I have a grasp on everything this phone contains or can do, mankind probably will be in the process of obliterating itself so it will all be for naught. But don’t worry because all of these wonderful new electronic gadgets that allow our own government and God knows who else to spy on us supposedly make our lives a lot easier than ever.
To be truthful, when I joined Facebook I had no idea what to expect. It was fun connecting to people like classmates from years ago along with friends I made throughout my life. Then the unexpected happened when politicians and others, many of whom I did not know, wanted to join my Facebook page. At that point in time I decided to drop Facebook entirely. Let me just say I don’t care what time people get up in the morning, what time they shower and just as importantly, what time they go to bed. Far worse, I especially don’t want any information regarding when they took their dog for a walk and if their dog did a No. 1 or 2.
Although I am far from making a decision on returning to Facebook, especially since the National Security Agency is more than likely spying on everyone there, I know that I won’t be joining Twitter and other such social interfaces or whatever they are called. At the present time I have enough problems trying to figure out what people are texting me because the best I can figure out is that they can’t spell, may be drunk or, even worse, are probably driving a vehicle. It’s bad enough I have to research on the web what LOL or some others mean, the use of symbols really sends me in a loop. I can only imagine if I received a tweet from Senator Reid or Rep. Pelosi what my reaction would be.
I have to wonder what all the social impact of this wonderful new electronic world will be. Maybe our school systems will just give up teaching children how to handwrite and teach them how to tweet. Sure would make the lives of teachers a whole lot easier.
Lane Hiltunen of Windham would love to tweet apartment building owners in Windham that Tony has let the tiger out of the tank.
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