That is the question I received via SMS an hour ago. First thought was... ”Spoken like a true E addict,” and not that kind mind you... actually what do we call Internet addicts? And what would that be exactly... no I am on the wrong horse here. What I meant to say is an info addict would be more the sort of thing my friend is turning out to be. Wifi, Crackberry, Twitter and all the usual suspects have colluded to drag us unwittingly into this alleyway that the information superhighway is fast becoming... and typically it happened fast! As a young person, each year is still a milestone, when we get much older each year will have meaning for a different reason, probably thanking the good lord that you are still breathing... or that Viagra was invented. But right now, young people feel like so much happens in a year, and it does, however the older we get the smaller a year becomes in terms of being a percentage of our life so far. So then maybe 5 years becomes a milestone... anyway fuck the future it will still be there tomorrow, lets talk about now and info addiction.
In my experience, first there was MSN messenger, blah blah Yahoo chat thingy, and Apple too, yadda yadda, Hi5, nyuf, nyuf, nyuf, Myspace, blah, yadda, nyuf, Google chat, DING! Skype and who knew that pretty soon after Crackbook would swamp all channels... WOW! (as Johhny Depp would say when confronted with technological wizardry, presumably beyond human comprehension, check Johnny Mnemonic and The Matrix) Now here we are at the flat screen flicker free trough day and, like right now, night getting all the junk, news, junk, status updates, pictures, porn, junk, jokes, sex, quizzes, fuckin amazing shit, shit, hot shit, cool shit, crazy shit, fucked up shit, all kinds a’ shit, snacks and shit... yeah and you know the whole time we are living one click at a time, around us hours of real dimensional stuff already available in smell-o-vision and so real it’s real is just fading away never mind that we will engage with it just now on Twitter or marvel at it on CL... actually that’s it I am off to CL.
Love you Lelethu...
Eish... now there is an invention I would give my... er... give a lot to have. A “back” button for life. Yaa neh, I am just an I-ddict, I even forgot what I was typing about in the first place with all this clicking around.
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