I am definitely suffering from sensory overload...Colleagues and friends of mine and I have been rabidly discussing the impact of social networking on our respective industries, familiy connections, and impact on the planet (these topics in no particular order of significance). Emerging from the threads and discussions of today are three thoughts of the evening:
1) Is social networking in the virtual world REALLY how we want to interact as humans? Although the transcendence of geograhpic and cultural barriers afforded by the virtual communities available to us is awesome, I wonder if, as I posted earlier on this blog, the anonymity that accompanies many of our presences really allows us to be less humane.
2) If we truly only use 10% of our brains, I assume that we could learn, through generations, to accomodate the phenomenal amount of information now available to us through the various on-line communities and discussions we join. However, at the moment, I feel as if I am becoming superficially conversant in a variety of topics rather than deeply passionate and expert in some. Is this a good or bad thing?
3) I, aging English/Poli Sci major that I am, find it amusing and a little disturbing how loosely we throw around terms to accomodate our grasp of technological change. I have heard the word metaphor applied to database design; social networking to on-line communities; and agnostic to applications that can integrate with various others.......Does anybody use dictionaries anymore or are we just grabbing the buzz words of the day and running with them? I, as precise as I try to be with my language am guilty of all of same as I try to express myself, but I am curious about how our misuse of the language may drive our misuse of the potential of the tools at hand....
Just a thought...
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The Whippet said...
Who is this Michael Patrick and from what unfortunately tragic childhood has he risen that would result in this need to repetitively attack these beautiful poems?
Dear Whippet,
FREE GIFT of ETERNAL LIFE!!
I LOVE JESUS SO MUCH
I SHOULD NEVER HAVE ANY CAUSE OR REASON TO BE ASHAMED TO LOVE JESUS.
Is not the time coming, and the day hastening, when covetous men shall be ashamed of loving the world, and voluptuous men ashamed of loving their pleasures, and ambitious men ashamed of loving their honours?
For is it not a horrid shame, that a rational creature should be such a sot as to love sin which is most loathsome, and not to love Jesus who is most lovely? To love deformity, and not beauty?
Oh shame, shame! It is a shame that sin should have such esteem, and Jesus such great contempt put upon him. But shame shall before long confound these now shameless wretches, when they shall cry out, "We are ashamed that we loved profits, and not Jesus- houses, lands, lusts, and not Jesus.
This is the confusion of our faces, and shame covers us-- that we should be so foolish, and so blind, that we had not sense, nor reason, to distinguish between sin, which is the greatest and most odious evil, and Jesus who is the greatest and most lovely good." But the time will never come, the day will never be, that a gracious soul shall be ashamed of his sincere love to Jesus Christ.
Do you believe that Jesus Christ, died on a cross for your sins?
Was your childhood, tragic?
JESUS CHRIST OR DEATH?
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