Add me as a friend
Let's write on each others walls
Or you could just call
Let's write on each others walls
Or you could just call
Facebook has revolutionized the way people interact with one another. Whether it's for the better or for worse, that's up to the individual to decide. It's not just Facebook, either. There is a plethora of websites that specialize in social interaction. They are great tools for networking, keeping track of friends at long distances or even locating people you've lost touch with. Though, as great as it may seem, there are cons to this social networking. This lack of actual face time that's substitued for text and images is detrimental, I feel. We're social animals by nature, and slowly but surely we're removing the animal; and I'm not quite sure what we're replacing it with.
There was a time that if you wanted to get to know someone you met, you got their phone number. Now people exchange Facebook profiles. Even when confronted by social interaction, people avert this interaction back to cyberspace. It seems as though that life on the internet is becoming more and more prevalent than the physical. So much so that younger generations are beginning to speak the way they type. There have been many times that I've heard someone say something witty or funny, and their listener's response was LoL or LMAO. I wonder if they know that they could just laugh and still convey the same message. These people seem to be the minority for now, but so were the first people on Facebook.
If society continues on this way, people will stop being people. They will become their profiles. Their status will eliminate the need to ask how they are doing. Their blog will eliminate the need to ask them what's new. The omnipresence of the internet could completely eliminate the need for that person to even exist.
It is to that end that I predict headstones in the future will have an LED display, not some touching final thoughts from family and friends. The LED will display their Facebook profile. Everyone will write something touching on their wall and mourn from home. But no one will ever go to see it. They'll just check it from home. So maybe they won't even have headstones. Facebook will just change the colour of their wall from blue to grey. It'll save everyone more time, to update their status to 'in mourning'.
There was a time that if you wanted to get to know someone you met, you got their phone number. Now people exchange Facebook profiles. Even when confronted by social interaction, people avert this interaction back to cyberspace. It seems as though that life on the internet is becoming more and more prevalent than the physical. So much so that younger generations are beginning to speak the way they type. There have been many times that I've heard someone say something witty or funny, and their listener's response was LoL or LMAO. I wonder if they know that they could just laugh and still convey the same message. These people seem to be the minority for now, but so were the first people on Facebook.
If society continues on this way, people will stop being people. They will become their profiles. Their status will eliminate the need to ask how they are doing. Their blog will eliminate the need to ask them what's new. The omnipresence of the internet could completely eliminate the need for that person to even exist.
It is to that end that I predict headstones in the future will have an LED display, not some touching final thoughts from family and friends. The LED will display their Facebook profile. Everyone will write something touching on their wall and mourn from home. But no one will ever go to see it. They'll just check it from home. So maybe they won't even have headstones. Facebook will just change the colour of their wall from blue to grey. It'll save everyone more time, to update their status to 'in mourning'.
It is her first time
He says he will be gentle
He removes her tooth
He says he will be gentle
He removes her tooth
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