Marinated Life, Seasoned Experiences

I’ve been googling around lately about Facebook. Probably because i fell in love with the movie Social Network, it occurred to me  that somehow i can do just what Mark Zuckerberg just did. But i am not Mark, he is simply way beyond any ordinary techie and computer geniuses. According to Netcraft, as of this time, Facebook users ballooned to 500 million users wordwide. Now, thats really something.  In my office, Facebook is the all time high website hit among my users/staff. That is with the restriction that facebook is only  available from 12-1 (breaktime). Would you imagine if I don’t have a policy on internet services in my office. Facebook would simply kill those free time any staff will be enjoying.

But it is not about Facebook why i am so keen on googling about.  Its about why is it that Facebook officially allowed everyone to be a stalker.  I am, yes..i am one of them, i open FB just to see people i am interested in. I wanna know whats happening  with them, i wanna know what is keeping them busy, i wanna know their thought,is she sad, happy, alive . . i suppose.  FB gave us what the 19th century craved for. . .and that is being able to know MORE  about someone out there with just few clicks.

I hope someday, FB will shut down, i hope someday all these electronic lines connecting people and technology would just blow apart completely leaving us only  one thing,  a simple life.  Yes i am a techie, i love technology ..but this technology gave me something i cant live without. It made me a monster. It made me a God of my Own, and that is why sometimes i hate myself on knowing too much.

I miss my old me where i could simply spend a day plucking my guitar.

Today, i cant live without technology.

I stumble on this quote saying that “technology… is a queer thing.  It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”  

Truly enough, and sad to know that I cannot relive what I was before.  So sad that i can’t end this blog i am writing.

As Jean Arp once wrote, “Soon silence will have passed into legend.  Man has turned his back on silence.  Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation…tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego.  His anxiety subsides.  His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.”

I love my life, i love living my life but i would have to use this technology to blog it.