Monday, October 12, 2009

The Internet Is Over

My blogging laziness is not particular to me. Admit it, you check fewer websites since the election, and your friends' who once consistently blogged are really sluggish, if they still blog at all. Most of your email is junk mail, and you aren't even as swamped at work as you once were. Everyone who accidentally Replied All with, "YES! L is a totally f----ing nightmare!" has gotten their emailing under control and have returned to face-to-face gossip. Okay, so maybe Facebook and Twitter are siphoning off a lot of the traffic but they have lost much of their novelty and are already facing stagnating membership numbers.

I think we are all headed back to the phones -- the land lines even! Or better yet, our desire to communicate, which was spurned by Bell's invention, is finally finding satiety, and we can all go back to something simpler and less communicative. Like gathering around the fire with our banjos and fiddles. Or turning in early. Or reading almanacs. I can't wait! You read it here first!

5 comments:

Lorin said...

I was going to send you a smoke signal, but its raining too hard. Will see if I can track down carrier pigeon instead.

Andrea said...

I've started wearing a watch again so I don't have to check my iphone or blackberry so often. Yeah, that's right, I still carry both....

Lorin said...

That's kind of funny - I've started doing the same thing (wearing a watch, not carrying multiple phones).

L&E said...

Dude, I totally went to a hootenany involving banjos around a fire the other weekend. It was great. But you must keep blogging so I know what's going on with the Dooley fam! (It's all about me, you see.)

Tv987 said...

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Similar idea but putting a lot more time into it...