I have only had my new Verizon magic machine for less than 24 hours, and I am already being sucked into its tiny LCD world.
I got a tweet from Chris that read as follows:
ccchristopher@caitykauffman how many forms of Internet social connections is truly necessary? Text, pin, blog, tweet... I'm overwhelmed.
Its true. Society is completely reliant on electronic forms of communication.
I went to Chili's with Lee over the weekend, and as we devoured chicken fajitas (mine grilled, his buffalo.. seriously the best), we had this social networking breakdown. How the HELL did people get by thirty years ago without cell phones, internet or even those tacky early-'90s pagers??
Lee: "Seriously, when you were going to someone's house, you had to call them on their landline, ask for directions, and then write them down. Then, if you got lost, you have to pull over somewhere and call them on a freaking pay phone? No way dude, no way."
Even my dad, who is in his late sixties, was the one who was all about me joining him in the cult of the CrackBerry. He admits that now he can't imagine life without his BlackBerry & e-mail.
My list of social networking/communcation addictions & accounts:
-Cell phone
-Texting
-Facebook
-MySpace (not so often anymore.. but, true to form, I can't bring myself to delete it)
-iChat (AIM)
-E-mail (personal & school)
-Twitter
-Digg
-Blogspot
-Last.fm
-Linkd In
-BlackBerry messenger
whoa.
About Me
- Caity Kauffman
- South, Florida, United States
- I'm a sportscaster on the FGCU Sports Report, Director of Media Relations for Florida Jr. Blades hockey and senior at Florida Gulf Coast University. Feel free to email me at caitykauffman@gmail.com
4 comments:
How did we communicate?
Well, first there were story tellers by the campfire. Then someone got the bright idea of working out a system of smoke signals.
When a fire wouldn't work (think brush fires in LeHigh...not a good thing) then we had runners who would memorize long messages, get to the end place, pant out the message and drop dead from exhaustion.
Then...Man discovered...writing...pens, papyrus, paper and pens. Then mail and pony express. Soon there was telegraphs--- "George..stop...I...stop...need....money...stop..." and thus Western Union was invented...then Al Bell, then radio and then Al Gore and his Internet thing...
don't you kids study history anymore?
Great write!
We have come so far to achieve what?
To be able to talk to each other through plastic and wires?
Depending on the scale your looking at, these inventions could be great achievements or a curse that is only growing.
We used to send carrier pigeons with our messages ;-)
Caity check this blog out, you may find it interesting
http://fourhourblog.com
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