Technology Rant

I was writing a meaningless Facebook birthday post the other day when I realized how I’m a complete and utter slave to other people. My slave driver,technology, chides me to do wordy tasks for people in order to keep up my public image of kindness (?).  Technology has made it so incredibly easy to slight people- no emojis after “okay” no special instagram post on a birthday, a delayed response ect. But with the same ease I can slight someone, I can also announce to everyone I know+ that so and so is my life’s joy. Theres really no excuse not to be an excellent friend no matter the distance. This is what sucks. I can’t possibly be a good friend to everyone I’m allegedly a good friend to. It’s exhausting. But it’s disguised as easy.

An example of this happened when I was studying abroad in Costa Rica last semester. A plethoric amount of people (not really but still) texted me and social media-ed me that they missed me but when I returned literally like one of those people actually made an earnest attempt to meet up. It seems to me that these people aren’t actually ingenuous, but internet words don’t actually mean what they connote without us realizing. Or are we all just knowingly making false claims? Legit it is so very easy to get in touch with someone, you don’t have to miss anyone if you have a smartphone. This never lacking, having someone at your fingertips at all times mentality must certainly devaluate our friendships and relationships.  Where’s the anticipation?

Technology also sucks because in order to write this I am standing on the roof of my sheep wagon as there is no service inside of my sheepwagon. (Think primitive camper) Mosquitoes are on the prowl. I am sacrificing my West Nile free body. Moving on…

Technology has given us so much pressure in relations. There’s no excuse valid enough to not make that call, text or comment. There’s so many more ways to socially screw up! These black mirrors absolutely rule time and interactions with other people. Why can’t I just meet up with bob when I accidentally run into him without bob holding a grudge for “forgetting” his birthday even though I got like 3 notifications about it?  Can’t I just be socially lazy in peace? No.