Step awaaaaay from the computer...PLEASE!?!?!!
10:35PM on July 13, 2009
I just found a great way to keep in contact with my friends…..
Stay in contact with your friends……
(Insert name) is sending you an invite to connect with them on (site).com....
The list goes on and on. I’m sure we have all received quite a few and probably a lot from people we have clearly forgotten about. Here’s my query. How many damn ways do you need to connect to a person? When did picking up a phone go out style?? When did just getting off ya ass and VISITING become played out?? Shouldn’t the net be an aide to connecting with people not a substitution?? Why is it that people will spend more time adding you to this site and that site instead of just picking up the phone? It’s 2006 and about 90% of Americans have a cell phone and in most cases they have long distance and can call after certain hrs for FREE! (and while we are at it. most phones have a camera and everyone knows someone with a cam. so can people stop coming up with tired ass excuses for just having one pic??).You know how strung out some people are on the pc? Ever not use your messenger for a couple of days or weeks? Turn it back on and you will get people that will ask “where ya been”? HUH?? Because I was not on the pc you assume I dropped off the face of the earth? Then they might proceed to go further and keep asking, like you pulled a Buck Rogers and went into some catatonic coma. The faux concern kills me. Yes some of it is sincere but to me... I think it’s funny for the simple fact that most people I will chat with… have my number. So why not just pick up the phone and say “how are you?” What is the purpose of chasing an individual down all over the net when you don’t have to do that?
Another wedgy in my online chatting drawers is people that send long ass chain e-mails about some individual from some place they have never been and concerning someone they never met with a subject line of “this is sad” or something to the affect. Yeah it’s sad alright. It’s sad that you will rather waste my time about some person or in a lot of cases some bullshit story to bring down my day than to just shoot an e-mail that says “Hey Lamont…what up??” I recently went to see a comedian named Ron White and he coined a phrase that suits how I feel about this he said “I’m 3 rd generation don’t give a fuck”…and I am!! This is how surreal it got for me. Recently I got one of those “let me pour my heart out and send it around to a bunch of strangers” e-mails. The irony of it was that it was about spending time with people and cherishing them…FROM A PERSON THAT LIVES IN MY AREA BUT NEVER VISITS!! WTF!?!? Also I get those dumb as hell “my baby is in the hospital”, “donate to lil Timmy”, and “this was on the news” e-mails. I call them dumb because in the first two instances…. What the hell is passing along an e-mail gonna do to save your kid (if it is a valid e-mail all to start with)? I’m not callous I’m a realist. If my kid is in any plight, I’m not sending an e-mail around exploiting my child (hell, I don’t even post their pics on the net because I know that pedophiles steal kids’ pics and use them for A TON of different uses one of the main ones is to pose as that child to talk to other kids…and also to masturbate to…so parents think about that next time you post your child pics on the net.) If my child needs help I’m gonna go get help…REAL HELP…not sympathy. So please stop sending me that shyt. I don’t forward chain letters. I don’t worry about bad luck either, especially since I was born on Friday the 13 th in October of all months. So if you are superstitious and really want that the chain to do some good, I’m not the link in the chain to jingle. I’ll break it.
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