By Brigitte Wendel
Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr: you’ve heard of all the big social networking sites.
Twitter updates your followers on what you’re doing every moment of the day – as if people care. Facebook helps you connect with friends and allows you to invite them to events and parties – essentially encroaching on the business of the post office. Tumblr gives people a chance to vent through blogs – making letter writing a lost art.
Each has its specialties, but let’s be real: they are all just ways for conceited people to talk about themselves.
People spend hours on the computer every day checking social networking sites. Hours spent on the computer are hours wasted. We could spend them exercising or learning (and people wonder why the United States is the most obese country in the world).
Instead of looking at pictures someone else took on the top of a mountain, go climb that mountain. Instead of digital farming or cooking, go out and actually grow some corn or bake a soufflé.
The world changes every day, yet social networkers are too busy checking their accounts to realize it. With the new smart phones, people can update their Facebook while walking down the street. Eventually someone will keep walking into rush hour traffic, and his or her next tweet will be, “I’m in the hospital.”
Some people say technology is the future, but people from the past were better off without it. There are few Platos or Aristotles in our generation, and I blame social networking. People have no time to originate their own philosophy, because they’re too busy checking their wall, reading the latest tweets and skimming the hottest blog.
So get off your butt, stop talking about yourself and do something.
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