Facebook, Age, Irrelevancy, and as the Japanese say, "Its the trip, not the Destination."
I'm not a big fan of Facebook, not in the casual way most people use it. I'm old enough now to have lived through most social ups and downs. The one that left the biggest impression was CB radios. The crush at the stores, the versions of the equipments, installation into our cars, the panic on licensing, microphones, speakers, radio ettiquette, range, technicalities - and for what?
So we could talk about all the above. Most of the time, all people did was report traffic problems, call for help out on the road, yak at each other about babies, their kids, on the highways, who was driving what trucks, who was meeting whom for hat meal, where, when, boring, boring stuff.
In ten years, you could pick up at hundred dollar CB radio for nothing. The 'craze' had run its course and it was over. Rapidly overtakne by cell phones, still running in the blood stream of America, cells now are given away as part of some companies marketing strategy. I got mine free at 71, just buy the cut-rate program for seniors, and they GIVE you the phones, month -to- month, no questions ask. Now, the big problem is what to do with them after their usefulness is over. Re-cycle, I suppose.
Same with Facebook: the most intelligent piece of technology with computers since the idea of the wheel. Post your picture on the internet, tell anyone, anything about yourself, send to anyone, anywhere, without restriction, ditto the same, back at your. And what do people talk about?
Almost anything, everything, the most mundane everyday, boring crap they did when CB radios were around. Million dollar, space0age technology in their hands and young people are so intellectually marginalized they holler, " Hey, went down to Circle K and got a Coke Light, " - Yeah...!!!. Dimwits It's like a throwback to the old days when they were so bored with themselves all they could think of doing was picking lint from their navel, masturbating in time with the Grateful Dead's new tunes, or zonking out to MTV - "instant gratification, like, " take way too long, Dude."
Some peoples' lives are all on Facebook, read, the relationships are all on the "box" but they can't relate to anyone, really well, sitting across the table at Pizza Hut - hence the Jared Loughners of the world. Or, maybe again, I over react.
So we could talk about all the above. Most of the time, all people did was report traffic problems, call for help out on the road, yak at each other about babies, their kids, on the highways, who was driving what trucks, who was meeting whom for hat meal, where, when, boring, boring stuff.
In ten years, you could pick up at hundred dollar CB radio for nothing. The 'craze' had run its course and it was over. Rapidly overtakne by cell phones, still running in the blood stream of America, cells now are given away as part of some companies marketing strategy. I got mine free at 71, just buy the cut-rate program for seniors, and they GIVE you the phones, month -to- month, no questions ask. Now, the big problem is what to do with them after their usefulness is over. Re-cycle, I suppose.
Same with Facebook: the most intelligent piece of technology with computers since the idea of the wheel. Post your picture on the internet, tell anyone, anything about yourself, send to anyone, anywhere, without restriction, ditto the same, back at your. And what do people talk about?
Almost anything, everything, the most mundane everyday, boring crap they did when CB radios were around. Million dollar, space0age technology in their hands and young people are so intellectually marginalized they holler, " Hey, went down to Circle K and got a Coke Light, " - Yeah...!!!. Dimwits It's like a throwback to the old days when they were so bored with themselves all they could think of doing was picking lint from their navel, masturbating in time with the Grateful Dead's new tunes, or zonking out to MTV - "instant gratification, like, " take way too long, Dude."
Some peoples' lives are all on Facebook, read, the relationships are all on the "box" but they can't relate to anyone, really well, sitting across the table at Pizza Hut - hence the Jared Loughners of the world. Or, maybe again, I over react.
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