As my blogs name states in my words and in my thoughts well my thoughts yesterday turned to social networking as a celebrity tweeted "Hate to admit it but life ground to a halt when i was without Internet. When did i become such a techno baby?"
It struck a cord with me because being on twitter for over a year now I've realised I've come to depend on my daily fix of drama, sarcasm, laughter and great chats with international tweeps.
Some people i have met through twitter have had more in common with me than people in real life, it's like a whole other world on the net sometimes it feels like an easier one not having to talk to people face to face being free to say things you wouldn't dare share with some people fearing you may be judged but for some reason those worries disappear on here. Once i had to go without the net for two weeks that seemed like a year to me! I do feel there is a bad side to it too it sometimes makes me anxious if you send a tweet to someone and they don't reply within 5mins even though there on the other side of the world and every Friday waiting to see who gives you a follow Friday shout out and how they say it but getting upset if they forget you and however many times you may give them one they never return the favour.
Other social networking sites scare me i once joined myspace if any of my followers really know me they know I'm a fan of Meryl Streep so of course when an unverified twitter account who claimed to be Meryl said she was on myspace i joined to follow her and i was so excited to be followed back it made my week only to find out after a few months it was a fake account.
Then there's Facebook nearly everyone i know is on there but i just cannot bring myself to join thinking about all the people in school that never talked to me suddenly wanting me to add them to my friends list or wasting time sending a cocktail or a hug to your friends or playing games tying to earn money to decorate a house, that i feel is a waste of time. I know too many people that are up till 3am on their FaceBook page or if they are unemployed spending all day on their computer checking FaceBook. Social networking has certainly become part of our daily life but one aspect of it particularly worries me and that is cyber bullying now back in my day at school (yes i know that made me sound like 100) email was the "in thing" so we really didn't have to worry about it but today's kids i feel sorry for the net has taken bullying to a whole new level home use to be a safe retreat from bullies but now you go to your facebook page or myspace and theres your classmates bagging the shit out of you threatening all sorts of stuff. This is one aspect that needs to be looked at protecting kids against this sort of abusive behaviour i know bullying will never be stopped it's a part of life but this new mutation needs to be!
To conclude my thought overall i think my social networking and Internet use so far has been positive i think I've been lucky enough to chat to nice interesting people and hope it continues that way thankyou friends.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Patience Does It Still Exist?
They say patience is a virtue but whoever came up with that line is obviously still not with us I've realised recently some through my own actions that today's society has little or no patience at all in fact I'll be the first one to tell you i have none at all. I started to think why has this happened how has our attitudes changed towards each other over the years and i could only come up with one answer which is today's technology everything is at our fingertips the net is a big part of that, we don't have to move to go buy our groceries order DVDs buy basically anything you want even our cell phones make it to easy theres even an iPhone application to order pizzas for you. One thing i do love is you can hop online to buy your movie ticket and move to the front of the line when you get to the cinema which makes alot of people jealous that have to wait.
It's not just the fact that we are impatient it's also the fact that alot of us like to piss people off. The other day i was on an escalator and a woman behind me was tapping her foot as if to say move so i can get passed you but lucky a large painting i was holding allowed me to block her path on purpose unfortunately alot of times I'm so sadistic that even if I'm in a public toilet and there's a huge line up I'll stay in there longer to piss people off god I'm mean, one of the things i most enjoy is when I'm doing my grocery shopping and little old ladies with their trolleys take up the whole isle i make a noise behind them like a car beep i receive dirty looks but it always works they move. I also have a pet hate when somebody cuts in line in front of me unfortunately I'm not one who just lets this happen i confront these rude people I'm the kind of person who would do a "Liz Lemon" seeing a guy cut infront of me in the hotdog vendor line so i would buy all the hotdogs to piss him off. Maybe one of the most meanest things i do is when I'm on a bus i move to the outside of the seat so nobody can sit next to me because i don't have the patience to have a conversation with a complete stranger when they feel the need to open their mouth and tell me their life story it totally annoys me.
I have had time to think about my actions and other peoples I've witnessed but i honestly can't imagine myself changing aswell as our society anytime soon although what i do may be considered rude and upsetting i take joy in pissing people off as I'm sure other people do, this may make me a sick, sad person but i don't care however i just wonder if we didn't have all the latest gadgets and technology at our disposal would we all still be like this would we actually find the time to talk to people face to face instead of on the net would we actually walk into a bank look at someone face to face to pay our bills i don't know readers what do you think?
It's not just the fact that we are impatient it's also the fact that alot of us like to piss people off. The other day i was on an escalator and a woman behind me was tapping her foot as if to say move so i can get passed you but lucky a large painting i was holding allowed me to block her path on purpose unfortunately alot of times I'm so sadistic that even if I'm in a public toilet and there's a huge line up I'll stay in there longer to piss people off god I'm mean, one of the things i most enjoy is when I'm doing my grocery shopping and little old ladies with their trolleys take up the whole isle i make a noise behind them like a car beep i receive dirty looks but it always works they move. I also have a pet hate when somebody cuts in line in front of me unfortunately I'm not one who just lets this happen i confront these rude people I'm the kind of person who would do a "Liz Lemon" seeing a guy cut infront of me in the hotdog vendor line so i would buy all the hotdogs to piss him off. Maybe one of the most meanest things i do is when I'm on a bus i move to the outside of the seat so nobody can sit next to me because i don't have the patience to have a conversation with a complete stranger when they feel the need to open their mouth and tell me their life story it totally annoys me.
I have had time to think about my actions and other peoples I've witnessed but i honestly can't imagine myself changing aswell as our society anytime soon although what i do may be considered rude and upsetting i take joy in pissing people off as I'm sure other people do, this may make me a sick, sad person but i don't care however i just wonder if we didn't have all the latest gadgets and technology at our disposal would we all still be like this would we actually find the time to talk to people face to face instead of on the net would we actually walk into a bank look at someone face to face to pay our bills i don't know readers what do you think?
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Work Or Family?
Recently i had a conversation with a fellow co-worker which i could not get out of my head i work weekends and so does she this is the type of worker who rarely takes holidays or has barely ever used a sick day. Her child lives in QLD and she had informed me that some of her friends in QLD were throwing her a surprise 21st birthday party my first thought was how nice than my mind quickly jumped to the fact of why wasn't she there? 21 is such an important birthday in anyone's lifetime i thought couldn't she have taken just one weekend off pay $50 for an aeroplane ticket and be there for that important milestone in her daughters life.
Now i know that different people have different priorities in their life and i shouldn't judge but i put this question to a few people i know and everybody had the same reply they would have moved heaven and earth to be there for their child. I don't have children yet because that would require for a start a boyfriend but i couldn't help but judge and that's when i came to the question when has work become more important than family?
I know that the global financial crisis made alot of people value their jobs, work harder so they felt their job was safe, but does that mean you should miss your child's first words or first day of school or as the case here their 21st birthday. Is the almighty dollar more important than your child's happiness?
What made me the most saddest is when do you get to the point when your whole life is about your job you eat, breathe, shit, live your job can't think of anything else everything in the workplace is your business even if it doesn't pertain to you. I felt sorry for this woman she is not the boss but feels if she is not around the business would fall apart.
To end my thought, i hope one day this does not become me, so preoccupied by my job that i don't stop to smell the roses, make everlasting memories with my family and i hope that i realise saving $50 isn't more important to me than visiting my child.
In my family, family always comes first!
Now i know that different people have different priorities in their life and i shouldn't judge but i put this question to a few people i know and everybody had the same reply they would have moved heaven and earth to be there for their child. I don't have children yet because that would require for a start a boyfriend but i couldn't help but judge and that's when i came to the question when has work become more important than family?
I know that the global financial crisis made alot of people value their jobs, work harder so they felt their job was safe, but does that mean you should miss your child's first words or first day of school or as the case here their 21st birthday. Is the almighty dollar more important than your child's happiness?
What made me the most saddest is when do you get to the point when your whole life is about your job you eat, breathe, shit, live your job can't think of anything else everything in the workplace is your business even if it doesn't pertain to you. I felt sorry for this woman she is not the boss but feels if she is not around the business would fall apart.
To end my thought, i hope one day this does not become me, so preoccupied by my job that i don't stop to smell the roses, make everlasting memories with my family and i hope that i realise saving $50 isn't more important to me than visiting my child.
In my family, family always comes first!
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