Ever feel like your brain is ready to crumble?
There are many good things about technology but it seems there are equally as many bad things aout technology. I think the good things outweigh the bad things in results but the older I get the more the scale seems to be tipping.
With the advent of facebook and decline of actual work in America, there seems to be a never-ending list of new ways to connect, communicate, sell, annoy, stalk, and frustrate. I don’t claim to know everything that is out there but suffice it to say, the newest “must have” technologies are those designed to consolidate.
One to rule them all.
My problem with this is my livelihood depends in part with may ability to navigate the tide of social media on the web. For the most part I enjoy this as it is interesting to see how far a single post or tweet can move beyond the point of origin. The easier the better and connectivity has developed to such a high level, I dare say most people can do everything they need to by way of communication with a twitter account. That single tweet can hit an endless list of websites and feed as long as the paths to each site have been correctly created. In fact, this post can be sent to Twitter and in turn Twitter will update the rest of the world in seconds. Literally.
Most days my tweets are little more than status updates which are actually easier to send from Foursquare or Facebook. It seems everybody wants to know a few key things about me, where I am, where I went, and eventually, what I bought. Apart from that, I am really not that interesting and trying to figure out how best to present my uninteresting life has become more of my life than my actual life.
Wait, I think we just created digital schizophrenia.
The problem with digital schizophrenia is I wonder if the only way out of it is to eventually fragment the connection? Fragmentation is directly opposed to the current push of greater connectivity. What a strange world we are creating for ourselves.
No wonder I feel so out of sorts when I work on this stuff. I am creating a virtual prison where the idea of who I am is more important than the reality of what I am. Our most important online interactions today are with those who judge us by what we do not who we are.
Icky.
I just realized the price of social acceptance might be a little too high.