An Unhealthy Internet Generation

To tell you the truth, I hate blogs.

Might sound funny, considering I have one, which I have hardly used in the past few years…

But I guess I have issues with something that people spend so much time on that isn’t really reality. Things like facebook and myspace can be such the focal point of people’s lives and they forget the reason that these resources exist is to connect with people…not to avoid them.

I find there is a danger with having a blog because you spend your life on the internet rather than with people.

I know for me, I use this as a journal…as you can guess I don’t journal often, so I don’t see any unhealthy abuse being used here. But I do know friends who live on facebook, and who sit at home, as opposed to actually going out to hang out with their friends, and comment on photo’s all the time.

I guess, my point is this…are we going to grow old, and during the last minutes of our lives, regret all the time that we’ve spent on these chatrooms, blogs, and things of the like…I know I don’t want to regret my life or at least regret all the time I spent on worthless things.

So take this post as a warning, or as a suggestion…get off your computer and go outside. You might have just logged on and came across this accidentally, or you might have been on for a couple hours already…

When have you last gone out for coffee with a friend? When did you last go for a walk? Go to the gym? Read a good book?

I know it’s been too long for me for all these things…perhaps it’s time to stop living vicariously through electrons and air waves and actually live life the way I’ve been wanting…

~ by blueskysurrender on October 31, 2008.