I just wanna be your lover
Facebook makes me depressed, Twitter makes me feel ubiquitous, Livejournal makes me feel useless, the less said about Hi5 and WAYN the better.
The worst part about each is that you look back on the relationships you used to have and see how far we have drifted from them - in an age that is meant to bring us all together.
The worst part is that we are all social network chicks, each screaming in each others faces to be heard above the din, then when we are, we don't know what to say. In an age where technology gives us a voice, we find we have no wisdom which to impart.
The worst part is that you end up feeling connected to people you haven't seen in years who pour out their secrets to you and you feel like a confidant when really you are a voyeur. In an age where information should make us powerful, it really makes us vulnerable. To ourselves, to each other.
The problem is not that we learn violence from video games, or bad language from television but that we spend more time waiting for the black mirror to show us colour that we cannot see the friends we made those memories with, hear the wails of others or be able to offer genuine human contact.
You and I might be able to address this, with our fancy clothes and social mobility but think on those who can't. Who just have memory, volume and reach exceeding their grasp.
They feel even worse.
Then they feel angry.
Then riots happen.
R.