I was just thinking about social networking sites, blogs, and personal devices. Are we losing or gaining social interaction? I'm a bit confused. With Facebook, Twitter, texting, etc. we do communicate more (even with people who are very distant from us) but we lose the essence of human interaction.. I mean the physical aspect of it. I also see a lot of people isolated and consumed by their iPods. I can understand if they're studying and don't want to be bothered but if it's to waiting in line or heading to class or waiting for class to start, I think it's not necessary.

It's like that quote from the movie Waking Life:
"...but I don't want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continuously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite manner."

It's just too bad that there are a lot of shady people out there.. maybe that's why we like to isolate ourselves. And in contrast, there are still a lot of genuinely nice people out there too.

Note to myself:
Buy ketchup. Just made hash browns and ate it with a packet of generic ketchup. The Hollen's ketchup is disgusting.

a good friend of mine is always, and i mean ALWAYS on her cell phone texting. texting shouldn't get in the way of doing other things. she tweets every second, and is texting all day, all night, no matter where she is, who she is with, or what she is doing. it gets on my nerves a lot, but i guess some people just like doing that kind of stuff.
» thaitanic on 2009-09-18 03:16:11

I know it drives me crazy when you're having a nice discussion or dinner among friends and then one just starts texting away then it becomes this ongoing thing all night. I guess some people don't realize it's like chatting on the phone every other minute.
» Mari on 2009-09-19 01:21:23

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