Social Networking and My Quickening Heartbeat

Thursday, April 09th, 2009 | Author: stinkwallet

That’s right, I’ve actually started following Spencer Pratt on Twitter. What started as a way of keeping in touch with nerds like myself, has now transmuted itself into something not-so-entirely scary, but perhaps a little frightening none the less.

It’s incredible to watch the evolution of social networking. A fascinating concept that has already been beaten into the ground with millions of blogs, articles, and news features, but none-the-less,I’m intrigued by my own utilization of the whole experience.

Our conversations keep getting shorter, and I’m not surprised that my attention span keeps shrinking at precisely the same rate as social networking limits the number of characters that I can use to express myself.

I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t excited about the evolution of everything. I love change, dynamic and exciting re-construction of everything that we know to be true. And it amuses me to watch those out there that are still naive about the ubiquity of the internet. I choose to sit back and let them relax for the moment, watch the world pass by without them, and I do envy them, if only slightly. I remember my angst-filled years as a teenager, fighting against change, conversion, and construction. But this man I am now is only a slight approximation of the boy that I was. I’m still passionate, but it was just as my mother told me: “Trevor, one day you will settle down.” And though there is little evidence of this gradual escape from extreme in my belly–my spare tire has yet to be seen– my mother was entirely correct.

I completely embrace progress. I embrace the gritty-nasty structure of the mass media, the abuse of Spencer Pratt and all of his minions. I feed off the tweets, and the buzzing of my cell-phone, and all the while my brain keeps moving faster and faster, in time with my quickening heartbeat.

It’s a scary proposition for my body. The same body that, like my mother keeps telling me to “just settle down.”