New revolution
It seems to be the biggest thing to hit everyone’s computers, with people finding themselves stuck at the screen even longer than usual.
With MySpace your life is quickly turned upside down, constantly searching for the font to make your free home page stand out, adding as many pictures as you can, and don’t even start me on pimping your profile because then you may as well bid goodbye to all your free time.
If it is not MySpace, it is Gaydar. If you don’t have a profile on either one, you just don’t count. I have seen many a pair of eyes roll back into a young head when some innocent has admitted to not having a profile and professed they are not really interested in one.
Have the days long gone when you met someone out and went on a proper date? Are we now a society that communicates using a mixture of logos, icons and acronyms like LMAO and BRB?
Of course everyone has an excuse for remaining permanently logged on and they all sound valid enough. Mine is that I use my profile for work because I am working in a world where my image earns me money. Hey, why not log onto my profile and download a video of my last show: www.myspace.com/maxishield?
Who can we blame for inhibiting our social skills and allowing us to lock ourselves behind closed doors for hours – sometimes days – on end? Who is responsible for the sea of socially inept youth having no idea how to hold a conversation or no understanding that the spellcheck is not always correct?
PS. I have crabs. For the next couple of weeks I’m hosting crab racing at the Newtown Hotel Wednesdays from 8pm, and raising much-needed cash for the Luncheon Club at the same time.
