Internet

I think that the internet makes people selfish and self-centered. Today we facebook and skype, text and email, chat and poke but what does it all really amount to, nothing. Most of it is all just meaningless interaction. Going on the computer and surfing the web is a very private thing and while we try and be social by going on sites such as facebook and twitter the control that we have over the situation makes it still a very individual type of interaction. But let me get back to my original point about social media making people self centered. With so many outlets to express one's self it seems like we live in an age of information, but in reality 99% of the facebook wall posts I receive, the texts I get and the tweets that come across are in one ear out the other. But, people feel it necessary to let others know what they are doing almost every second of every day. I have a cousin who is a teenager, she is constantly texting on her phone, and if she is not texting she is talking to someone and if she is not talking or texting she is on her computer updating her facebook status. I said to her once, "You cannot possibly have this much to say to people, you are 15 what is so important that you have to let everyone know?" And of course she didnt have an answer, thought I was just out of touch and old, but to me despite all the outward projections of information we have available to us through social media, we as people are continuing to sink inward.