Thursday, March 31, 2011

Wasting Time Online

I must say that there is the phenominon that I have embarrasingly found to be prevalent in many of the educated, especially those in high speed professions, namely in the case of those I personally know, in the medical profession.
There are persons in this world who view any involvement in internet commerce, internet activity, onling gaming if one has done so or any other activity in the online world as a "waste of time" or even worse as "the problem that exists to keep them from being extremely diligent in their entire profession and world of living".
I have a new friend who has left facebook I am told because "it took too much of his time".  He no longer has an address that can be accessed on facebook and I now am unable to productively communicate with him through the channels of the daily use of facebook that you clearly know that almost the entire western world does daily or at the least a few times a month huh? 
Just having an account does not mean you are going to be online for seven hours a day.  Does it?  You choose your daily activities.  Do not delete your facebook account if you dont have time to use it.  Cmon.  This is the future and this is how orthodox work gets done today.  Right? 
We know that we can write to someone online.  I dont have to call you in your home, look up your phone number, pay to get your number from information or an online search site and I dont have to send you a paper letter by way of a mail carrier and my need to walk or drive to a mail receptical, put a stamp on an envelope, write an address or even look you up.  You are SUPPOSED to be present online.  Thats my belief anyhow.
So that said, don't take off becuase you just cant find that you are able to be as productive in another arena. 
And don't complain to me that facebook corrupts your life.  It does not at all.  You corrupt your life.
I don't care if you are afraid of seeing an illicit image once a year or whatever.  Don't abandon the computer.
Don't leave the western world and don't forget that your Creator CREATED all of this.
So be good and be a human being who is tech saavy.  Be aware that this is TRULY the future.
And be online.
Thanks.

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