Strange to see the kind of social interaction that takes place these days.. communicating has become a lot more complicated than just walking up to a person and talking even with people you see and interact with everyday. Let me explain with a scenario
disclaimer: A true story follows all charectors in the story are real people albeit a little hyper bordering insane.
--scene set in an apartment with 24/7 high speed internet--
A bunch of friends are hanging out together something funny happens… Guy #1 cracks a joke about Guy #5 who is not at the scene. Guy #2 goes "hey am gonna put that on facebook"
Guy #1 says " yeah put it up and I'll comment on it"
--after the comment is posted Guy #3 calls and says--
"u know what I'm gonna post so and so comment on this and you reply to my comment okay?".
Guy#4 says " hey call Guy # 5 and ask him to look at it… cos the jokes on him.
--end scene--
Heights of social interaction, face-to-face, phone and facebook. I don’t think mark zuckerberg envisioned this for facebook!
Even people sitting in the same room sometimes type out their thoughts in a FB comment rather than just saying it out loud. I have been on both sides of this phenomenon, and I feel utterly foolish after this interaction but somehow its strangely funny and satisfying,hmmm… just for a minute though after that its back to foolish.Its like we have a log of everything said and done and someone is going to validate it.
I'm just guessing but I know somewhere this is exactly what is happening.
Mom: Status update on Facebook "just made dinner for the family.. awesome chicken curry and hot chapathis"
Son : comments " wow.. I'll be down in a minute"
Father: Comments " wait up don’t start without me"
Son: Likes his fathers commment!!!!
We are becoming a generation of typists. I wonder if they will start teaching shorthand from 1st grade.
Moral of the story: jet set and be abreast with the FB, Twitter generation.. but once in a while tap someone in the back and enjoy a healthy "verbal" dialogue. Just every now and then (once a week is not so bad)so that you don’t completely forget the art of talking!
