Connected/Disconnected

02Feb09

i spend way too much time online, some of it because of work, most of it because of the sheer loneliness/boredom/patheticness of my life. i spend so much time online that a friend of mine actually called to find out if i was ill after she hadn’t seen me online for a few days. i spend so much time online that irony of ironies people with minute-by-minute status updates have begun to annoy me.

X is about to go to bed.
X is on her way to bed.
X has sat on bed.
X is in bed.
X is happy that Y has decided to join her in bed

Yes, all that & the annoying comments that accompany updates from a non-life. does anybody care?
Then there is the 25 random things about me meme that is making the rounds of facebook. i would have jumped on the bandwagon if i could come up with 25 things that people didn’t already know. between facebook, this blog, not to mention delicious, librarything, messageboards and the general malicious google search there isn’t much about me that isn’t already out there or that my friends don’t already know. most of the people on my facebook like on everyone else’s aren’t really friends at all. just people who want to malicious about when you finally get married/have a baby/graduate, who’s sleeping with whom, who put on weight etc.

which brings me to the question of privacy. as a scorpio i am a very private person. or rather used to be. the combination of new technologies & small island now means that privacy is dead. i find that liberating. maybe it will make us all more honest.

now i’m off to get a life. or at least leave a comment on someone else’s.

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