I recently heard someone from my parent’s generation warn about Facebook and kids spending more time online. The concern was a loss of connection with the “real world.”
How easy they forget…
Go back 100-200 years ago when communities were real. People would gather by a fire or on the front porch, tell stories, hanging out and bond. You knew everyone in the neighborhood, or your small town.
Over the last 20 years society has lost much of this communial socialization. I used to live in a master planned community in Fort Worth with houses spaced 10ft apart. The irony was I barely knew any of my neighbors, no one really communicated and I did not feel much of a sense of community.
Contrast this with Facebook. Suddenly I’m connected with old high school friends, having a 1,000 people following my life, and communicate daily with so many people. I recently added a old friend I haven’t spoken to in 15 years on Facebook. He updated his status that he was skiing in Telluride and having a better. The status was 2 minutes old. Right under that in the news feed was a picture of him holding a beer he had uploaded from the iPhone, 3 minutes old. Wow.
Think about that for a second. A friend of mine whom I had virtually lost contact with were it not for Facebook- I knew exactly where he was and what he was doing a thousand miles away from me at that very moment in time. That is amazing.
Communities are coming back, just rather than the front porch, its at Facebook.
You may or may not know I’m a big UFC fan.
Do I think GSP cheated in the Penn fight? No.
Did the vaseline have a effect on Penn’s submissions? Yes.
