This morning started like any other workday, but quickly took an interesting turn.
- Review schedule, appointments and tasks: Check!
- Read favorite blogs: Check!
- Update Facebook and Twitter status: FAIL! EPIC FAIL!!!
- Morph into a grunting Neanderthal due to Facebook and Twitter failures: Check!
Earlier today, Facebook and Twitter experienced technical difficulties, making it nearly impossible to update status or wall posts, make comments, send messages on Facebook or even log on to Twitter. After an hour of dealing with these daunting and frustratingly futile tasks, I asked myself if I "could live in a world without Facebook or Twitter."
My answer was, "Absolutely not!" However, I'm guessing that the majority of respondents would disagree with me and answer in the affirmative. Why not? We lived in a Twitter-less world before it was invented, what's the difference now, right? Well, I'd like to answer that question by removing the words 'Facebook and Twitter' from the original question.
Could you live in a world without...
mobile phones? Even 8-year-old kids have them these days.
the Internet? Try looking for a house without it.
automobiles? At least there would be less pollution and the ozone layer might still be intact.
airplanes? Two weeks to cross the Atlantic isn't so bad.
radio? No biggie. TV killed the radio star, anyway.
television? Could be the next casualty of the Internet era.
cable/ satellite? NBC would actually be "Must See TV!"
calculators? Time to dust off the abacus.
electricity? That investment in wax futures is looking pretty good right now.
the printing press? No printing press means no textbooks. Hmmm...? Not a bad idea.
Were you able to say "yes" to any of these questions? If you think so, think again. The question wasn't "could YOU live without..." it was "could you live in a WORLD without..."
It's reasonable that any of us could live without a few of these things, but it would be very difficult to live in a world they had not impacted. For example, try to imagine a world without electricity. With the exception of the printing press, the rest of the list wouldn't even exist.
And, while the comparison between the importance of social networking sites and electricity is a stretch, we cannot downplay their role in our society. They will be around until they are upgraded and/or replaced, so why not fully embrace them or at least stop complaining about them?
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