A friend recently informed me that her window cleaner’s neighbour (whom she only knew by sight) had broken up with her boyfriend and was dating a toyboy “with a six-pack to die for”. “I didn’t know you knew her that well”, I replied. “Oh I don’t. I saw it on facebook.”…She is a bit of a voyeur I must add and likes nothing more than sitting down with a cuppa and having a good old nose. Postings such as “just made some chicken soup. Mmmm” and “hangover cures anyone?” are her daily fodder. I occasionally get informed about the dead pets of various acquaintances thrice removed too. Not quite sure I see the merits of all this social networking to be honest (says me writing a blog…) Just how did we get to this point of knowing everything and precisely nothing about our fellow citizens? Once upon a time you could only communicate using smoke signals and what was wrong with that pray tell? Ok I suppose writing letters was a step up and provided much-needed employment for mules and the like. It was an effective enough system that stood the test of time but I must concede that the much later invention of the telephone was a cracker. I would have stopped there personally but then again radio and television, which were up next, did add an extra dimension to our lives, granted.
Some clever clogs then put a massive spanner in the works by inventing computers, enabling us to send messages worldwide at the touch of a button (the majority of us really didn’t need to do this but suddenly felt we must). Of course that wasn’t enough for the tech-hungry folk and soon enough, mobile phones were not just in the hands of the big bucks city boys but became everyone’s extra appendage. Then texting took off and the bamboozlement sky-rocketed along with it. “Text me!” and “email me!” were outdoing poor old “ring me” by 50 million to one. Forget “write to me”, that one was consigned to the knacker’s yard some time ago. Fast forward a decade to “tweet me” “facebook me” “what’s app me” to name but three of the crazy cyber gang and you’ve got yourself a whole new set of excuses for not talking to anyone. Despite this lack of face to face chat, we are now more aware of our friends’ of friends’ bowel movements and candy crush triumphs than you would have ever thought possible. It was all worth it for those brilliant pioneers then. Ahem. It’s a travesty which I want no part of (after I’ve checked out that tasty toyboy that is).
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