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Is there anybody out there?
I’m sitting here in front of my computer and it’s struck me the number of ways that I now have available to me for keeping in touch with people. I’ve got the trusty old landline phone for making “proper” calls and the mobile for emergency calls but I’ve also got all of the Net based things - Skype, iChat, Windows Messenger, as well as those “social networking” classics Facebook, Twitter and Pownce. Oh and we musn’t forget email!
I make that a total of nine; which is about the same number of people that I might possibly want to contact at some point. I realise that I’m not the most social of people, so my circle of friends and acquaintances is quite small, but even for people that have lots of people that they want to be in contact with do we really need this many ways to contact them? Isn’t this all a bit of overkill?
Yet I’m addicted. iChat, Messenger and Skype are nearly always on, I check Facebook with monotonous regularity and I’ve got all my friend’s blogs in my feedreader so I’m always up-to-date with them (actually, that makes ten; I forgot about blogs!) I’m now even starting to get into Pownce and Twitter, although God knows why.
Then there’s message boards; how could I have forgotten about them? That makes 11. At least with message boards, though, they tend to have a structure and a focus to them - you’re engaging in a dialogue with others about a particular subject.
So, all-in-all, I have more ways to contact people than people to contact. I know I’m not alone in wondering why we need to be constantly in contact; do we really have so much to say? I know I don’t.
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