technology, technology, technology!

Technology continues to improve every day. We facebook, we myspace, we text constantly, we meet people online, and we get step-by-step directions fed to us by a machine (dubbed as "Susan" by a friend of mine), but we consider all these little hobbies as nothing more than indulgences and modern ways of communication, guidance, and etc.

Your probably saying..."what.."

While meeting our old childhood friends on facebook, and meeting new friends on myspace we typically consider these websites as small ways of communication, but they're not. These sites are the new and improved way for you to have drinks with a friend or even go on a blind date. Just the other day I met someone at a party, soon I was there friend on one of those sites and soon we started shooting the shit. Person to person interactions are long gone.

So while increasing your amount of friends through the internet, I bet you thought that meeting someone special, or the "Special" one on a dating site as risky, pedephile filled, and pretty lame. But then why is so much social interaction done online? Why are people forming new relationships and more importantly keeping/maintaining them online.

Online dating anyone?

We as a society have decided that meeting people (in real-life) from a internet relationship as dangerous by most. Although online dating services are making millions (500 million in '04, '05), many people continue to disapprove. This kind of activity has become taboo, while facebook and myspace reign as king. It's obvious, we're hypocrites, we like technology, but we don't.

Besides online dating, another form of social interaction is texting (cell phone). Did you know that 23% of harassment crimes take place on "Cyberspace." Which begs the question, "Why do so much stuff online, even though it can be a bit dangerous, and we don't completely like it?" Is there something wrong with this picture? Or are we all just a bit scared to talk to someone face to face, and texting, facebooking and emailing is just easier, and supposedly safer.

So to sum it up, we like meeting people online, only friends though, and while it's a bit dangerous we continue to do it, but continue to think that meeting a lover online is taboo.