… you are the love child of social media and technology…..
When your business card has a blog adress on it…
When you have one card for your name, and another for your social network profiles…
When you start calling everyone tweeple….
When you speak in 140 characters or less…
You laugh LOL…. in real life…
When poking someone is OK….
When you get RSI because of Facebook…
When facebook chat overtakes MSN…
When your actual conversations are Facebook messages or Tweets….
When your mom has to DM you on twitter to get your ass down for dinner…
When your mom has a FB or twitter account…
When you mom “understands” the concept of Facebook, but not the settings on the washing machine…
When news breaks first on Twitter….
When you answer every question by Google-ing it….
When your name has a number at the end to identify you… because the name CookieMonster was already taken….
When your phone can detect earthquakes and volcano eruptions, but struggles to make a phone call…..
When you prefix someones name with @….
When you pass a message by re-tweeting it…
When you organise an event purely using twitter…
When you can list 20 things to prove who your real parents are – Blackberry and Twitter. Who needs DNA?
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Someone needs to get out more.
*whistles innocently*
@hfm
It’s not all me 
hahaha
ah, yes, i must be the bastard child….
btw, no-one takes my name drnsain
hopefully – all the main sites have drnsain as mine bwahahaha
*I* think it is awesome.
Hmm so is it just me or do you cringe at the thought of your mom having a FB account as well?
Jussayin…
@mars
*makes a note*
*goes to all main sites(what a definition!) to register drnsain*
Mwahahahaha
@falakk-ji
Thank you ji, I didnt really eat ALL the oreos
*hands over oreos*
@Punky
Although my mom doesnt have one, but my aunt kept pestering me all summer last year in explaining to her what things were. I had to explain what and why poke existed. *holds head*
You’re not alone
I don’t recall you commenting previously – so welcome to this looney land!
haha. my mom just learned how to text, and my dad doesn’t believe in cell phones. if you met them, you’d think i wore a bonnet to the grocery store, accompanied by my eight sister wives.
Fortunately, I can’t identify myself with the features you mentioned
my mom just learned what a wireless connection is. and my dad has yet to get caller id on his cell phone.
BUT my GRANDPARENTS text & IM me….
pretty f’n weird.
‘When your mom has a FB or twitter account
I do none of the above!
[ wait, is that a good thing? - of course it is! my bad] My dad just about learnt about blogs =]
Its a sad sad world we live in. I think I may resign from this virtual-ity….. someday :p
I think the reason for the pessimism/resentment to this age of tech – is because some of us have lost our human-ness because of it. We are no longer face to face. It can be an excuse for those who are naturally socially awkward, an excuse for those who don’t want to deal with the discomfort of facing someone and having an adult one on one. It has blurred the lines in our relationships. Both men and women think its ok to text message each other out on dates/ get to know each other via emails . tweets . etc.
There is also something really great about it all as well. We can now connect to others faster than we have ever been able to. Our parents generation would have laughed if you told them you were sending them a “message” while you were on a train in London, and they were driving in the deserts of Oman!
I suppose the point is not to abuse the blessings of technology that have been bestowed upon us! (Hah!)
Moderation my dears… Moderation :p
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