The Interweb Generation

It feels like only yesterday when I was on my Gateway family computer with windows 95 logging onto American Online for the first time. Back then not that many people had a computer with a 56k modem hooked up to a phone line that they could use to surf the vast desolate information super highway. Back then you were lucky to get a cell phone by the time you could buy cigarettes. Now every mother fucker and their fucking moms has a high-speed internet connection and a cell phone, everything is point and click instant gratification, instant messaging, instant meals, instant instantness. Slowly the world is becoming this super fast impersonal cold ball of super conducting metals and fiber-optic wiring. People used to have to talk face to face with people or sometimes over the phone but now all that's gone; all you have to do is text, IM, or message someone what you want to say. While this is an amazing advancement in technology it's a severe decline in human interaction, it's a couple steps back actually. Because of texting and IM'ing and social websites like Myspace and Facebook kids now a days don't get as much human interaction and learn about body language. Children are getting cellphones at a younger and younge and while there are many arguments that say it's a good idea (some of which I would most certainly agree with) it still thwarts the child's body language lessons and regular language lessons for that matter. For god sake my mom even texts me now and uses abbreviation for words that are only four letters long! Instead of going out and playing jailbreak or tag or manhunt or kick-the-can, kids are trying to get more friends on myspace or sitting inside and just texting each other. When and If I have kids, I'm sure it'll be a way different time then it is now, I'm gonna kick their asses outside and limit their consumption of technology. You wonder why your kids are bratty fat ass social retards it's because you let them sit on their computers and cell phones all day eating chips and drinking soda. Slllloooowwwwww dddddoooowwwnnnnn--call someone instead of texting them, hang out with someone instead of IM'ing them, or go out and meet people in a normal social setting then just leaving comments and adding new people on myspace. Sure I spend a decent amount of time on my computer too, and I text a lot too, but I didn't start till I was way past my adolescents and have had plenty of social experience. Get some exercise and making friends in real life, your only hurting yourself.

I'm about to start sending letters to friends in the mail, bring that fad back.

-Toph