I'm connecting with you because of Facebook. I know your thoughts. I know what you like. i know what you're complaining about. i know how you talk. relationships are different now depending on how emotionally slutty you are on these online forums because I know you in a more detailed way. I may have never really talked to you in real life, but because we are Facebook friends, there is a constant dialogue.
Technology has become a real extension of ourselves. We like something in real life and we can say that and share that with the world through social forums. Everything you would want to know about a person on the first or second date, you could learn on their social network profile. Things that we think and feel and choose to document online in emails and on social networks are there for the foreseeable future. We can tap into them whenever. Had a thought the other day and emailed it to myself. A week later, I read it and knew word for word exactly what I was thinking. I could email that to someone else, and depending on if they read and save it and read it again later, that thought could exist forever. That's what I mean, we can access our thoughts at any point in time, depending on your internet connection of course, and we can access information we WANT, too. Information that could be trivial or academic. The time between wanting and having information is now ZERO. And that's what they mean by the world is getting faster. That old way of describing the internet, the information super highway, indeed. I finally get it.
Jenny
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