according to facebook...

so it just hit me how crazy this whole internet, connected over the web thing is. at this moment there are millions of people all around the world sitting at their computers doing countless things...and we are all connected. i was just looking at my buddy list and after the 5th time of checking everyone's away messages and making sure there was no catastrophes occurring i just realized how many more times i check everyone's away messages then i call a person.

now that facebook started their creepy stalker feed we are all "clued" in on each others lives so much faster. i just called my friend to "see if there was anything she wanted to tell me" because i had logged onto facebook and realized that she had changed her status to "in a relationship". i am a complete victim of this, but i still laugh at it. blogs, away messages, statuses, profiles....are we all really getting to know each other more? do we all really need to know when everyone is going to bed, or how often Joe is contemplating his life? how often do i find myself using some kind of information i have gathered off the internet in normal conversation with people.

"oh yeah, did you hear? they broke up...according to facebook!"
"oh, well she never told me that. but if it said it on facebook then it MUST be true!"
"yeah...and she had some depressing song lyrics as her away message. so it's gotta be bad."
"yeah...but that's lame, keep your relationship private! don't broadcast your emotions all over the place, that should be kept between her and him!"
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"oh, by the way...did you happen to notice my new about me section? totally had to update it after last weekend."

...click click click....clickity clack....click click click...

always adding, updating and rearranging. it always seemed that the phone was too impersonal. if you had something important to tell a person then you would call to set up a time to meet in person. but now, if you check your inbox and see that you got a message from someone then your heart skips a beat and you wonder if your crush FINALLY messaged you to tell you all about his long time hidden love for you. i mean...how romantic to be won over online....tell me that wouldn't be an awkward first date?

annnnnyways...i don't mean to bash all of this, because i am totally guilty in all these regards. but i was just giving it some extra thought and i think i will try and challenge myself to call people more often instead of looking at their profile to try and read their thoughts. i mean after all, aren't we advertising ourselves online so that someone WILL take notice and want a deeper relationship?....hmmmm.....