nobody cares what your doing...

OK so I don't want to completely abandon my generation or anything because we have produced some good things like, ghd's and Lily Allen...
But seriously guys we have some issues.
At what point did we trade in quality time for a macbook and friendship for an iPhone?(id like to thank Apple Macintosh for sponsoring this blog) We have become master keyboard warriors, every person standing on their own soap boxes pushing their points of view. We have become islands. Constantly connected to one another through twitter, facebook and text messages but never really connecting with each other in real or genuine ways.

We have to be contactable 24/7 and if were not we freak out, when I lose my phone (which happens more then I care to admit) I seriously fear I may actually die if I don't get a new one stat! The art of face to face socialising is going out the window and we are suffering because of it. We have more acquaintances and less friends. We network, we don't build relationships, its all about quantity over quality. A hundred people might text you for your birthday, or send you a facebook "wall post" but how many of them will show up if you needed them at 2am?

And beyond friendships, what is this doing to relationships? Once upon a time men showed up at the girls house with flowers, threw pebbles at windows and found time to write letter while being shot at in trenches. These days a boy (I say boy not man) sends a text and were supposed to swoon because prince charming could spare 12 seconds to press some buttons? and then after its all over you can press some more buttons and end the whole thing without having to deal with the awkward social interactions of breaking up. I hate to break it to all the deluded girls who get butterflies when their phone vibrates but "hey bby, ur hot wna catch up" is probably a group message...

I hate to think what my children will end up doing, they'll probably find a way to reproduce while not having to get off there xbox. I just think that maybe if we could make some time in our lives from all trying to have our own little empires, to actually engage with people, to switch off our phones, to actually listen to the person your talking to, to take note of the people around you instead of wondering who's going to sms you next, there would be a lot less depression, and a lot more joy. Like kids who are living so in the moment, engrossed in there conversations, captured by the butterfly flying past, blissfully unaware of what their friend from Sydney's status is at any given moment.

Im not bitter, I swear, Just painfully observant.

Smile Often
Beth