23 September 2010
does this ever happen to you?
do you ever get lonesome on the internet? Like you stay up later than everyone else watching your crime shows on the DVR, but also surfing the web looking for something interesting? and you end up checking facebook every 2 minutes hoping one of your friends posts something funny or sad or smart so you can comment on it? and then you realize how sad that is, and that you could write a real letter, with paper and those fountain pens you bought at the thrift store two months ago, in the time you've wasted staring at the internets, and actually send something to someone you love, and maybe use those shiny stickers you've been saving. But instead you just fast forward through your crime show, delete it from the DVR, and start the next one. and check facebook. and then write a blog post. and think about making popcorn, or going to bed, or getting out those fountain pens. Does that ever happen to you?
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can't tell you how much time I've wasted (checking FB every two minutes - hello, that's me). Technology is great and everything but I often wonder what I'd be doing if there were no computers.
Man! you must be under hypnosis seeing me in my livingroom watching Criminal Minds and then watching me go to the back room to check my Facebook page during the commercials! Amazing!!
This is becoming an issue of our time. My Ipod Touch was stolen 6 weeks ago, and I've read twice as many books as usual since then, which says a lot. I'm so sick of people checking e-mail in meetings, watching teens sit silently across from each other in coffee shops texting, the distractedness everywhere. I don't have a TV, which helps, but I do spend too much time on the 'puter. And I also want to be truly present to my kids without one eye on FB.
good for you, Mink*e. When I FINALLY get a job all the TV watching will go out the window and I can into more of a mode of a productive life like reading which I love. I really don't watch much TV normally but I tend to watch more when I'm depressed which happened when I lost the job.
I hear you, Christine - in stressful times, the TV can indeed be a welcome distraction. I watched non-stop when I was on bed rest, and it was a lifesaver. But then, when the boys were about 6 months, I started getting this sick feeling about all that screen zoning, and our TV broke, and that was that. (& vI hope you find a job soon!)
Christine and Minke....and anyone else out there(here we are communicating on Jennifer's blog), television is a veritable wasteland out there with mindless tripe. Give me an old fashioned book (or a new book) I can hold , caress, connect with....and a letter sent to someone I care about and/or receive from someone I care about and I am filled with contentment. Anyone who knows me, knows I would rather sit across from you, have eye contact, chat, listen,hear you laugh, feel your presence...or kibitze with you on the phone than text, email or any of those other tech things that are around including the almighty facebook. Can you tell I am not a facebooker? It is not for everyone----Sorry I have not called you all lately. Kathy S.
Ah, yes, Kathy - but I have to say, I HATE the phone, and the cell can be just as distracting as the computer. The mothers in my own mother's generation was always telling the kids to shush so they could talk on the phone, and my generation is always checking Facebook or e-mail. It's swapping one technology for another. I do like the broader conversation of Facebook (as opposed to the phone)and am also better at e-mailing when I truly have a sec than doing anything at all while on the phone - especially driving. But, I do think that face-to-face is the real deal, important, and with no substitute.
(I should add, Kathy, that you and my mother are the only ones I do enjoy talking with on the phone. Perhaps because you are both well-practiced in the art of the phone conversation.)
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