"Facebook is a fantasy land of goofy pictures and meaningless banter, and too many people are getting lost in that make-believe world. Too many people are under the illusion that on Facebook they actually are engaged in a community, when the truth is they are alone in a room and staring at a screen."
- Marc McAfee
Marc's views are true to every though and fact that people should realise about this ginornimous online phenomenon. Replying to a two-word post on your wall in Facebook does not qualify as a conversation. Soon enough we will be all losing touch with our inherent conversational skills and dissolve to sms-like yelps in reality. Stop stalking your so called 'friends' online and give them a phone call instead. Or even better, call them and ask them out for a drink. If you can't suck up the courage to do so you would have already been infected by the fear of facing people.
You will be surprised at how much more it means to others meeting up in real life rather than hiding behind a screen
14 December, 2009
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Three Cheers for the rant :)
It is a blatant stark truth staring back at us from the screen; it's emotionally hollow. Real bonds of
communication with all the expressive eyes, the quirky twitch of the eyebrow, the slant smile of amuse, the high and low pitches of our tones and not forgetting the body language which speaks volumes have somewhat faded far out into the vacuum of cyberspace. It's sad!!
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