Facebooked to death?

We blog, we Facebook, we tweet. We want people to know what we're thinking, what we're eating, who we're hating. Or who we're mating. And we feel gratified instantly by the pleasant feedback we receive, then feel dispirited, indented and depressed when no one seems to pay attention. Only 1 like and 2 comments? We have become more lonely.

Now, let me ask you this: If you're at, say, Starbucks, what would you normally do? a). do you sit down and be quiet with your java? b). do you read a book, a paper or shop their store while complaining under your breath how expensive they are? c). or do you call all your friends and put them on a conference call and tell them where you are? It's absurd to think that you'd do c. Most likely you'd do a or b, right? So how come that we broadcast to all our 1,093 friends on Facebook, everything that comes to mind or what's about to enter our mouth? (At Starbucks with....having....)And with pictures even! Because we have become more lonely.

Possessions or experiences are mostly treasured when we can share it with friends, because sharing is giving and giving is virtuous. And Facebook has made sharing so convenient and so instantaneous that we'd think we'd have more free time to spend with loved ones. True, if you consider him sitting across the table from you, focused on that little gadget in his hand, as spending time. We now have more time and more gadgets to help us isolate the very person sitting next to us. It's not sharing that causes our misery, it's convenience and instant---2 words that have made us more lonely. We're supposed to commune with each other, and take the time to sit in the ashes with our friends, and see actual sweat and tears streaming down our faces, (and not have to wonder and interpret cryptic words like huhuhu, argh, or lmaof) that's what makes us humans....not cyber geeks. God created us to be virtuous, not virtual.

Having said that, I have to say that I normally don't follow mine or other peoples advise, but am feeling so virtuous right now that I gots to share this. As soon as I find that FB share button.....