overload
As I type I am feeling ashamed. I got out of bed plenty early to be highly productive today, but have thus far done nothing than try to catch up with all of my digital friends. I started by posting a morning tweet on my twitter feed. Noticing that others in my circle had been tweeting, I took some time to read what they had happening over the last 24 hours. This prompted me to post two additional tweets, and spurred me on to log into facebook to view more photos of all the activities my friends had been tweeting about. We all know that facebook can easily eat up several hours of an otherwise perfectly useful day, and I was immediately ensnared. Once I got going, I could barely tear myself away to feed the cats, and the only reason I actually did so was because one of them jumped onto the desk and got in the way of my time with facebook…”if I feed them, they’ll leave me alone with the computer”
Once I happened upon the TripAdvisor “Cities I’ve Visited” application, I immediately found it necessary to devote the next half an hour to making my map and reading reviews and recommendations about some of the places I have travel plans for. Next, it was time to see who else I knew that had created their own TripAdvisor map, which led me to finding photos of all of my friends’ travels, and sending a message to a friend I have traveled with in order to request that he upload photos from our trip.
Three hours later, here I am posting a complaint on my blog about how I’m worried that all of this time spent online isn’t really enriching anyone’s life enough to justify the time spent obsessing about putting all the details of our daily doings online for everyone to read about. Completely ridiculous. I don’t have time for this.
