So my computer is creeping me out as its playing random music out of nowhere. I didn’t click play on anything, and…well, that’s neither here nor there. Well, okay it’s here, but it’s not there. So, I don’t know if everyone heard the news, but I guess there are people out there creating apps for Facebook to help you do something you probably were already doing. Now with the help of http://www.breakupnotifier.com/ you can now be notified when that taken girl or guy goes from “in a relationship” to “single”. This gives you not only the time, but now requires little effort to figure out when you can go ahead and jump in on that hot girl you’ve been ogling from a virtual distance all this time.
Personally, I think this is just the evolution of the social networks. We are so in tuned with each other’s lives, that we have to know what everyone is doing. Twitter is a minute by minute account of the lives of strangers. We’re following celebrities to know what they’re doing that has no baring on our personal lives, we follow friends and interesting people, and we use it to keep track of the latest goings ons in the world. I hope I said that last bit right. And then there’s Facebook. An open book of our lives where we share where we’re eating, what we’re thinking, and we share images and videos of things that happen in our lives. It allows us to show off us, even though most people may not be interested in any of it. I mean, who really cares that I’m having dinner at a sushi restaurant or playing video games at the local arcade? And I facetiously hate you guys who can’t remember what an arcade is.
So when we share our lives, we also are very interested in the lives of those we’re attacted to. We follow their every post, liking almost everything that put up on Facebook. If they’re dating, we pay even more attention sometimes, maybe feeling jealous or envious. Whatever the reasoning is, I know there are more than enough people who would use this service and follow those people we want to be with, but can’t. Is that wrong? Well, in a way it is. Its kind of creepy, but its anonymous enough to where you can keep the creep factor to yourself. Either way, I think that people will use it, embrace this service, and pounce when their crush becomes single.
With all this going on though, it makes me wonder about the future of social networks, and I have a theory. I think that there will be a turning point, when we share so much information that we know everyone’s business all the time, because it will be embedded in our phones, maybe even our clothes. People will know what we’re doing at all times. When we’re out on a date, having sex, making dinner, taking a shower, using the toilet, even what we’re eating without us even talking about what we’re eating. And that will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, and there’ll be this huge uproar from the public and the world will try to revert back to the 1980’s, when this stuff didn’t even exist. The problem? Its in our skin, in our food, whatever. Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but it will be so integrated in our lives, that we wouldn’t know what to do with ourselves if we weren’t being inundated with information about our friends, our friend’s friends, and so on. No more secrets, no more hiding. Just us, spread out for the world.
Well, like I said, just a theory, maybe it’ll be totally awesome. Either way, this stuff is here now, might as well make the most of it. Right? Right.
