Thursday, November 1, 2007
ME? ANTISOCIAL?
A good friend just joined one of the major social networking websites, and apparently, so did I. I was urged to check it out, and to do that, I had to sign up. I did.
SO NOW WHAT?
I don’t want to communicate with this friend via a website. I would rather drop a personal note, pick up the phone, or best of all, get together and enjoy each other’s company.
I don’t want to “make friends” with anybody this way.
Friends…REAL friends…are hard enough to make as it is.
So many impersonal ways to communicate these days.
So does that make me “antisocial?”
Posted at 10:15 PM by Gerry
6 Comments:
No! I think it makes you smart...but we knew that, I think. Hmm...maybe I should give it more thought.
Have a great weekend, as the glow slowly but surely fades from baseball '07. OUR year!!
Hi Gerry - I agree with you about how impersonal communication has become. I work at a small library and we have blogs and wikis and email - nobody talks face to face anymore! If we have a question or comment, it gets blogged or we email someone. But, I must add, without your blog, I wouldn't be communicating with you, so I guess we can find something good in everything.
Linda
Very funny, Peter!
And Linda, I was thinking the exact same thing while proofreading the post.
No, it doesn't make you anti-social.
It makes you old.
Dave, that's very hurtful.
And very correct.
I'm with you. People say they have 'friends' who they've never met before. That's just not right. I mean, look at these people on myspace who have 150 'friends' who've they've never met! No one wins, in my opinion, when you cannot pick up the phone in an emergency and dial up one of those people. Most of them only know each others email addresses.
P.S. I purposely go through the lines at the grocery store instead of the self check out because I'd rather some eye contact and a "Have a nice day" instead of a "Please scan your next item. Do you have any coupons?" from an all-too-calm computer generated 'voice'.
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