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And so another week slips by me

23 Jul

Can’t believe it’s Friday already, where did this past week go to?

Seems the older we get, the more life keeps speeding up and if I look back over the past week it’s just a big blur. I guess spending long times in front of the computer does eventually fry our brains. I’ve been working with computers since I was 11 so thats about 27 years now. Computers have speeded up big time since my first XT computer yet we still cannot seem to get enough done, fast enough, no matter how fast the pc is.

Guess that’s life in the 21st century for us. Most people have their head permanently stuck inside some kind of computer device these days, be it a computer, iphone, ipad, blackberry you name it. If you’ve seen a group of teenagers these days sitting 10 in a row texting each other without muttering  a word out of their mouths, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Where will be be in 20 years time? Will we all be permanently stuck inside a virtual world? Will we lose our ability to speak and instead prefer texting each other with emoticons? When will the governments totally rule out emoticons too and make us lifeless unemotional beings?

Sure makes you wonder  eh?

 
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My love and hate relationship with Facebook

20 Jul

I’ve been on facebook since the very beginning, long before the masses descended upon it, but have a never ending battle inside myself  about spending time on it.

In the first 6 months of Facebook my wife and I were like serious addicts, sometimes spending entire weekends on the site. It was just so enthralling finding long lost friends from school and seeing how their lives turned out, some for the better, some for the worse. Finally someone had found a way to reconnect people and social networking became the catchphrase of the day. We did eventually learned to control our addictions sometimes not logging on for weeks at a time.

My list of friends has now grown into several hundred in the last few years and logging on and checking the status updates page can be somewhat overhwhelming and some days rather annoying too. While Facebook does cut out the need to pick up the phone to say “hi” and does allow one to pass off a one-liner about how one’s day is going, most days it can be a status update page of a lot of bitching and moaning.

On days when I’m struggling with my own problems in life I could care less about anyone else’s and have tended to avoid the site completely the last few months.

My clocks are still ticking, hell has not frozen over, the magnetic poles did not shift and overall I feel a lot less stressed NOT knowing everyone else’s daily problems for the last 4 months. There is life after Facebook, I know I’ll be back when I’m ready but right now the leave of absence is doing me the world of good. So if you find yourself stressed out after being on Facebook, just try and stay away for a few weeks.

On the lighter side this is very funny and strangely true :) How to suck at Facebook

 
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