Is Virtual Life Taking Over Your Real Life ?
Jun 1, 2010 Computer and Internet
I don’t have friends. Period. I mean good friends. I have may be just one or two good friends. That’s it.
There are good friends and there are bad friends. Right? Well. That’s a stupid sentence to write in the first place, anybody knows. Sorry for taking your precious time.
To share a few of my personal life with whatever little friends I had, I used to write a few junks like as we did with geocities of Yahoo.
I don’t know how active that platform is now or is it dead already, I have to check it out.
Thesedays, I have turned towards FACEBOOK and HI5 and other social networking sites.
I can’t imagine what will happen if my mobile phone starts communicating with FACEBOOK. Not yet !!!!
Will I be bombarded with messages like? Hey, I am just making a coffee.. I am off to a vacation for 2 months in Bahamas or I am in the island having a great time.
And guess what ?
You are working, I mean you are really really working hard somewhere, and you escaped lunch because the manager told you so. Now when its dinner time, you have no clue what will be on your plate. You arrived home late, stomach is crying out loud for some food. There are some snacks scattered near your game console where you last played your video game.
Cats and Birds are hungry for food. You Feed them first, for you know, they love you and they never ask you for nothing. Pets are better than friends and family, it’s a fact ! Prove me wrong.
Before you can get some hours of sleep, you turn on your PC to get online, because it has become your habit.
On face book, you know you are going to be on a very large list of friends and everyone wants to talk to you so you put yourself offline. You have so many other ideas in your head, and if there was a machine that could accept them, you could turn them into cash right now. But you also know that a day will come by and ideas of yours or mines will surely be in the form of CASH not some lousy texts like these. No, I am not lucky. I am just looking towards the future, knowing past was for learning, present is here right now, and future; here it comes !
In face book and others adding friends makes you feel good because you accepted someone’s offer. Not accepting makes you feel low. Is it only me ? I think you should avoid it if you don’t know the person.
I know you should at least know who the person is. Right ? Even so, what are the odds that a friend you see on facebook isn’t the real friend and same goes with other social networking sites. So, after all, friends can be both real and unreal. Now I like this sentence better.
Let me write it down one more time. In social networking sites, friends can be real and unreal. Let’s add equation here real means good/bad friends, unreal equals good/bad friends. Then there we have it again. Same like the real life. You are left to decide. Giving your entire life history to a site can be deadly, that’s what he said. He said, his friends started fighting as one liked what he wrote and one did not.
I like Facebook because I don’t need to remember email address of friends who have moved. It’s easier to have just a page to keep in touch with them, but it seems harder as the number of friends grow and you can see as they play with their pages, you have no idea who has just recently changed his profile photo. Is that the real person I was talking to earlier ?
Facebook’s Recent changes in security is still so complicated. Why do they make it so harder to change settings and what on earth does it mean friends of friends to a newbie of facebook user ?
Face book used to be for schools and colleges, since it’s now like world-space, I feel like it’s nothing but a giant table where everyone is sitting typing and passing on messages and sharing stuffs. It feels like a giant cybercafe where there is no FREE coffee. Also bunches of “What’s on your Mind?” is nothing but copy/paste of fav quotes from the internet. WOW! Now it’s easier to read good quotations because you don’t need to search the web.
Speaking of stealing someone’s photos etc, it’s even so easy now. You don’t need to take it from me. Look at the photos under someone’s photo and look else where on the web.
Could a lot of time on social media destroy your actual life ? Plus, if your friends are one social networking site and you aren’t, what are you suppose to do ?
It’s time to stop my head spinning, oouch! ouch!
I think it’s time to make it a habit to visit social networking sites perhaps once a week, twice a week, or may be once a day. I know a friend who usages every time something pops up on his iphone.
I’m scared… Should your real life be wasted, because you are simply wasting your time more than necessary ? Do you really need to know if your friend is making a coffee when you don’t even drink a coffee? Do you real need to know your friend is going on a vacation when you are burred under debt ? Oh well, it’s life. If you wanna know what your friends are up-to. Keep going.
You can only digest so much ! So, if you are looking for a tiny tip from someone who knows nothing about Tech, please be careful out there when you giving everything about your life to a web site because some of your REAL LIFE could be wasted as your VIRTUAL LIFE takes over! Social Networking Sites are highly addictive.
Be well,
– ruben
Has the virtual life already taken over you real life ? If you answer Yes to the following question, it might have.
From the time you wake up in the morning to the time you sleep, how many hours have you given to social networking sites ? If you are wondering, hell, you article sucks, how about giving some of those hours for social works then ? or cleaning home ? or helping dad or mum ? doing something of your real life ?
Anything toooooooooo much is never good for you
p.s. i wish i had time to proof-read, sorry if there are any typos.
During your life time, you might be away from Nepal and without a doubt, you will be asked many times “Where you from?” and you would reply your country’s name. For this post, “Nepal” You expect the other person would know and you pause. Then…
Their responses can be shocking. Nepal. Okay. Mount Everest, or “The small country between China and India? Okay. So that’s where you are from ha?” But it would be nothing but stupid to expect everyone to know every country on this planet. I don’t know either.
We are all uneducated, literally. We are all learning day by day till the last moment. We are on a journey of our life.
Forget about charts showing country-wise literacy where Nepal has 40% and Georgia has 100% and all the developed countries like USA, UK, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, CANADA come close to being 99% or so. Literacy charts mean nothing to me. Who knows, even the folks of the country Burkina Faso know more about Nepal than the rest, the country has the lowest literacy rate.
Over the years, I have got these replies when I told them, “I’m from Nepal” and I visited a few foreign countries so the Background of the people are different but their reply are pretty much the same:
- Where is that ?
- Isn’t that part of India ?
- Oh yes, you come from such a beautiful country ? Have you climbed Everest ? (are you kidding me or do they know my weakness already. I laugh inside. I wish I could have even been at the base of Everest. Who knows, perhaps I am among many Nepalese who don’t travel to destinations within our own country. For many, I know, it’s the cost. Everest ? It will be around $50K for sure and in American Dollar that i.e.)
- I said, NEPAL sir. not NEPOL or Nepolian. Nepal Sir ! or Madam to Madam. And their reply, alright, you are Nepolian than ha. No sir, I am Nepali not Nepaliz. He/She Says, “I know that place” but deep inside I am giggling. They keep on saying, “That’s the place where Nepolians right. (They have no clue no clue where Nepal is it kind makes me sick on my stomach!)
- No reply–They just keep a silence, for they don’t know and they think are smarter than you. So you push forward, Mt. Everest Sir ? (hoping that might ring a bell, but no! But to some people it does. Oh, you are from Nepal. I love when someone gives me that kind of reply. Wow. Now they know my country. But again, they ask so many questions I can’t answer; it’s like a Nepali who hasn’t visited his own land more than the guy. You just keep on saying, yes, yes, Annapurna Circuit, I trekked there. A complete white lie to keep the conversation going, then later you throw what you know, Pashupati, Sadhus and what not and everything.
- I’m sorry I don’t know where that is. I will look up on the Google Earth Tonight. That’s a great answer to me than saying, where is that ?
Two of the world’s highly populated countries are right there and Nepal is in between. They know China, alright, for they have something in their home that says, “Made in China”, or “Assembled in China”. Still not believe what this crazy writer is writing. Even the latest techs are assembled in China (read the backside of your iphone and it does say so!) And they know about India, for it has been talked about for a lot on their Cable TVs and travel shows for India’s crowd and its Hindu culture amazes foreigners. (But, little do they know, there isn’t much difference in Hindu culture of Nepal vs Hindu Culture of India) For Nepal ? Unless if there is a death on Everest or Nepalese are killed or some crises goes up on the streets, a few clips are often seen only on CNN or on their main brand news stations abroad. Except for the Internet, NEPAL is pretty much neglected by TV media. Could that be the reason why so many people don’t know about Nepal ?
Let’s boil this question once it for all. So, in your way i.e. complete FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION but with some respect for others, what do you call a person who doesn’t know about Nepal ?
Following is a diagram, if it makes you happy. It was worth creating.
until next time,
Spread the word of NEPAL – a beautiful country you ought to visit this year instead of saying what? ha? where ?
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