Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Short and Sweet

No, i'm not describing myself in the title, just describing the post. Here's my question of the week: Why is the inernet so appealing? Seriously, let's take a BIG look on an example. The Facebook. Do people have an addiction? All sources point to YES.

UW-Platteville has recently got their hands on a website media called The Facebook. What is it? A way to stalk each other in a more subtle way. How you ask? This online directory allows one to look up anything about a person that person is willing to admit. Let's use an example. If i were to look up a girl name kimberly, here's what we get. A page with about 3 choices of Kimberlys would pop up. Which one to choose, lets go with the one with a question mark for a picture (just for fun). We come up to a screen that has information on Kimberly. things like where she's from, what she's majoring in, what kind of musi she listens to, her political views. This particualr girl is a liberal that likes to party and has no specific music taste.

You may be asking, what's the matter with that? Well, first of all, the first thing you judge that person on is how they look. If they are cute or just plan ugly. if they are ugly, no need to waste your time. Next, if you are added as a friend, does that mean your a friend for life? Or just to get as many people on your list as you can (which is apparently called "whoring out")? Next, you judge things souly on the fact that they like pink floyd or like country, or they put God as their interest, or they are an art major.

My biggest problem with this is, what ever happened to good old fashioned questions? You meet someone in your class, you start talking, you ask what they are majoring in, perhaps you escalate to the level of where are you from. This is the old fashioned way of meeting people! what ever happened to that? Then the question is raised, is this God's way of introducing people? Or is it something satan contribed so that we become even lasier than we already are?

I'll admit, i'm on the facebook. I could have rebelled and not gone on it, not written anything in my profile, or not put a picture up. so i succame to all the pressure of the technology. I'm ashamed to say that i'm meeting people through it too. I think the difference is, i think its dumb, and funny that people have started to use it as a crutch. I laugh at the stupidity of southwest wisconsinites. i mean seriously, the facebook is so two years ago.

1 comment:

Brini said...

I admit too, that i'm much more comfortable to say things where i can type them. then at least you can make some sense of what's going on in your head. But i do think that talking is romantic, and not in the lovey dovey sort of way, its just a romantic media of communication, and basically, the romance is dead these days.

But on with the revolution! Wait, what are we revolting?