twenty first-century cliche

several years ago, in the age and birth of pagers and cell phones i swore i would never own one. now, i have a blog the new way to tell the world about your life anonymously. i fought the urge for a cell phone for the last 2 years; when i realized how many people i watched using them to lie. including a guy i once thought i would marry.

he used his cell phone to harvest women's phone numbers; he would also call me from one part of town and say he was in another; it ruined my trust. i don't know how many people use cell phones to tell their lovers and partners that they're somewhere else when they're not how can they possibly find out?

the new century has brought us internet dating; which has become a major cash cow---icq was once the greatest instant messaging system- now you can get it included in your cell phone and text yourself into debt. we have dsl because it's faster than dial-up and 56k is soo 10 years ago. being connected and staying connected to everything but what's in front of us.

i admit to being a 21st Century Cliche, i rode the internet dating thing for a while-all it left me with was stories i can tell my grand kids about, and a few descent men. we now even have cell phones that you can use as a camera; as if the digital elph you got last christmas wasn't tricked out enough.

there's a consequence to all this, it's the fact that kids have shorter attention spans, because they instant message& spend time online-we channel surf on our digital cable televisions. we grab our laptops and are never far from a wifi station. we have lost sight of the simple, that we're human beings. email and a webpage is just words on a screen-i know from my own experience that i have misread plenty of emails, because it's a poor substitute for human contact.

i will continue to blog& will treat my cell phone like a landline, it's currently off as i write this. i intentionally wrote in courier today as it reminds me of my parents old ibm typewriter. see what's in front of you & don't take it for granted; remember the simple not all the digitial stuff that complicates.