Social Networking
I have seen two movies recently(Zombieland and Easy A) that have a bit that make comments about social networking. In Easy A a teacher says “I don’t know what your generation’s fascination is with documenting your every thought…but I can assure you, they’re not all diamonds. “Roman is having an OK day, and bought a Coke Zero at the gas station. Raise the roof.” Who gives a rat’s ass?”. In Zombieland, Jesse’s character(ironically) says “the best thing about Zombieland… no Facebook status updates you know, Rob Curtis is gearing up for friday… who cares?”
I think there is some part of us that needs to document what we do. Generations before us had diaries, journals and letters. We just so happen to have a bit more of a public arena for letting these things out. If you think about it, saying on Facebook or Twitter “Had a chicken burger today…so good. Gearing up for a solid weekend” is just like putting your thoughts or feelings about things in a book or a journal or some other form of primitive writing.
If you look over the years of Facebook and Twitter posts you can piece together most of the things that happened to me in my high school years. You could probably do the same thing with the journal from someone of the previous generation. Just because we had different mediums. This is all probably very obvious. One thing I like to do as a tech enthusiast is predict where the future of technology may take us. I mean we can now buy things without going into the supermarket. Siri was invented to talk into our telephones. Maybe someday we will be going all Star Trek and making a ‘Captain’s Log’ at the end of the day. Just talk to some peice of technology built into our room or phone that takes note of what we are doing and how it makes us feel and just tells anyone we want.
I can see it now: ‘Captain’s Log HighSchool-Date 9522.6…Had great lunch with Dylan. Great guy, that Dylan. Tomorrow we are going to that new movie cinema in the big shopping center round the block. It’s their opening day. I can tell you, we will be going where no man has gone before…”
’til next time.
Benny Bob.
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