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Raz

Raz

Bluelighter
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*check email for new private messages at any one of three online forums*

*check phone again for messages*

2009.

In years past, you could be a social outcast and find some small solace in knowing it, in knowing your place in the world. In the New Century, it's all a bit more difficult.

Friends in 2009 does not mean what it meant in 1999. Friends once meant I will spend my time with you/we have common interests/I like you enough to choose to be in your presence. Friends now means I met you once/we post messages to the same forum/I like to feel popular/I may never actually speak to you nor do I have any desire to.

The future is not a place that is kind.

This is not what we were meant to be.

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*check email for new private messages at any one of three online forums*

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*logoff*
 
We gain, we lose. It doesn't matter so long as we keep taking the pills... ;)
 
haha join the movement to keep ethics of the 20th century alive. I have yet to be impressed by anything in the new millenium. I suppose I'm a bit nostalgic.
 
When I rolled over the thread title to see what it was about, I saw "Facebook" which reminded me I had to check it.

LOL.

I'm a l0ser.
 
Iunno, I've found people online in these constructs of 0's and 1's to be more supportive than a lot of real live people. People function at their worsts and bests when you don't have to see how their faces contort to your thoughts.
 
^^^^Aye, I agree...I don't think online social networks are in and of themselves a bad thing; I probably wouldn't be here today if it weren't for bluelight for example...it's more that I think people are replacing hanging out in real life with online contact. I have friends who live ten minutes walk away who I email/facebook/flickr heaps, but they can never be arsed to actually leave the house to do anything realtime. It's more frustration at that part of it really..I think online social contact should compliment offline, not replace it... :\
 
Living in the woods, in a new city, has made me really appreciate the internet. That said, I miss hanging out with my friends.
 
Without the internet I would feel so isolated, but I definitely understand your viewpoint. That's the great thing about poetry, and art in general - it evokes emotion - even if you don't wholly agree with the ideas being presented. :)

I love this piece Raz, it captures something bleak and truthful for all of us. <3
 
i deleted my facebook because it made for lessened social interactions, or at the very least my excuse for that lessening. Now that its gone i miss it like a phantom limb which still pains me.
 
I definitely don't use it as a replacement. I hang out with the friends in my city just as much, if not more, as I would without Facebook et al. Actually, almost undoubtedly more. As for friends outside my city, I HATE mobile phones, and rarely use mine, so Facebook has been so great for me to be able to keep up with what's going on in everyone's lives. <3 internets.
 
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