Hodgepodge of thoughts

It is so sad how disconnected from your friends you can feel after two days off of Facebook. Why has our society gotten to this point? Why is even a text message hard to send? I went from being able to see what a friend was doing in a seconds time, seeing pictures posted of events I wasn't able to be a part of, or chatting on FB chat to occupy time and catch up with a friend to nothing.

I don't think I realized how addicted I was to Facebook. I also know that I underestimated how hard this fast would be. I am truly shocked by this. I could occupy my time with hours of meaningless games of Farkle and yet now, find it difficult to study, read, or just enjoy silence with God. I have written so many of my friends "thinking of you" type cards, not sure I will ever give it to them, but just because they were on my mind and I can't put a comment on their FB page. There is such a different culture in our society today. I had a classmate in my english class say today that part of the reason he doesn't take notes in class is because his hand starts hurting if he holds a pen to long. We all chuckled but he said that it is easier for him to type on a computer than to hold a pen and write with it. There is so much truth in that statement and so much honesty. I mean, how many people is this true for. I know for me, one of the reasons that I type out all of my homework is because I can type faster than I can write by hand and so I can get more thoughts on to a piece of paper this way. After my classmate shared about his struggle with writing with a pen/pencil another person said that they figured they don't need to know how to spell because Microsoft Word has spell check.

What would it look like if we went back to little or no technology? I'm not saying technology is bad, there is a lot of great things that it has brought us and a lot of advances in fields like medicine. However, what would our communities look like if we went back to writing hand written letters and putting them in an envelope with a stamp and sent it to a friend. I don't think they would know what to do. What would it look like to pick up a phone and actually call your friend and talk for hours, or call and invite them to lunch to talk? Now, we are still really good at face to face communication, or my community is, but I still think we have lost a lot of the 'personal connection' in our generation.

I don't know if any of this makes sense. I am just writing all the random thoughts that are entering my head. It's almost like since I can't type 140 character status' every time a thought enters my head, I am finding other outlets to flush out my thoughts. Hence the blog.

I am, according to my psych class, an internal processor. I think this is true in a lot of instances. However, I also can't keep things in very long. I need to flush out my thoughts, and I usually do that by writing. Most of the time it is in my journal, but when appropriate, I also use this blog. Actually, I am using this blog more because I have to with school, so my person journal isn't as sufficient because I won't tear out pages in that to get graded. I am a lot more raw in my journal than I am on here. Anyway, I will leave you to consider how insane I am becoming with a lack of facebook. HA! I look forward to what this month will bring.