I took this photo on behalf of my friend James who on a nearly daily basis makes a negative comment on how connected to the internet and work I am at all times.I am on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, YahooIM, AOL, Skype, Oovoo, have multiple email addresses, multiple myspaces, etc…it’s damn ridiculous. The disturbing part is that I enjoy it. I really do. I enjoy being able to see my email at all times. I like to twitter nonsense as much as I want to. I like to update my Facebook status…But am I TOO connected? Are we as a culture too connected? Can we go to dinner and leave our Blackberries / iPhones in the car without having a heart attack? Do we have to tweet about what we’re having for lunch? Must we base whether or not our current relationship is serious or not / on the rocks based on a Facebook relationship status? How did this happen so quickly? How have we stopped communicating like members of a human race and started texting or IMing people that we’re sitting at the table with?I’m telling you, I really do love this technology, but I’ve been approached by several people that have differeing opinions that I’ve been open to and heard out. I agree in some regard, I do. I do think that this technology has completely altered the way we live our lives, and not always for the better. When you see a family out to lunch and they all have their phones out texting or calling somebody that isn’t there…does that not strike some kind of nerve?I finally gave in and got the iPhone last week, and the way I live my life has drastically changed. I can do almost anything from that device, when at the core its main function is to send and receive calls. I instead am taking picutres, making songs on my cat piano app, looking up grocery stores near my future home in Seattle, listening to music, and, of course, Twittering.

I took this photo on behalf of my friend James who on a nearly daily basis makes a negative comment on how connected to the internet and work I am at all times.

I am on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, YahooIM, AOL, Skype, Oovoo, have multiple email addresses, multiple myspaces, etc…it’s damn ridiculous. The disturbing part is that I enjoy it. I really do. I enjoy being able to see my email at all times. I like to twitter nonsense as much as I want to. I like to update my Facebook status…

But am I TOO connected? Are we as a culture too connected? Can we go to dinner and leave our Blackberries / iPhones in the car without having a heart attack? Do we have to tweet about what we’re having for lunch? Must we base whether or not our current relationship is serious or not / on the rocks based on a Facebook relationship status? How did this happen so quickly? How have we stopped communicating like members of a human race and started texting or IMing people that we’re sitting at the table with?

I’m telling you, I really do love this technology, but I’ve been approached by several people that have differeing opinions that I’ve been open to and heard out. I agree in some regard, I do. I do think that this technology has completely altered the way we live our lives, and not always for the better. When you see a family out to lunch and they all have their phones out texting or calling somebody that isn’t there…does that not strike some kind of nerve?

I finally gave in and got the iPhone last week, and the way I live my life has drastically changed. I can do almost anything from that device, when at the core its main function is to send and receive calls. I instead am taking picutres, making songs on my cat piano app, looking up grocery stores near my future home in Seattle, listening to music, and, of course, Twittering.

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