My Obligatory Facebook Post

...(or Lack of)


A typical conversation with someone I just met:

"Hey, add me on Facebook!" 
"Nope, don't have one."
"Really?!"
"Yup.  I have a MySpace, though."
"REALLY?!?!"
"Nah."
"..."


If you're saying to yourself, "That's not how our first conversation went...," then though you may have met me, you definitely haven't met met me.


This post is utter nonsense.


Anyways, I always see the future as rather unfortunate just because of Facebook (and other methods of social networking).  It seems technology's evolution is now centered towards social networking and the like.  And while not necessarily the worst thing in the world, I feel it can limit potential in creativity or revolutionary ideas.  For example, new technology today: phones, TVs, video game consoles, computers, etc. all seem to cater to FB and others.  Phones will come out with new apps centered around making accessing Facebook better, TVs have a Facebook widget, and computers and consoles all are social networking oriented.  A hideous example:

Ugggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

That Facebook button is actually one of its main "selling points."  Ugliness aside, to make a software design is one thing, but to physically alter the hardware to specifically serve one function (an external company's, at that) is mind-blowing.  


My biggest complaint with the way times are moving is the fact that nothing new seems to be being discovered aside from making networks even social-er.  Windows 8 has a brand new, completely different GUI that's more geared towards the Windows 7 phone users who like to twatter or book faces.  Xbox 360s, PS3s, and Wiis all update firmwares and patch for social networking.  Where's the 720s, PS4s and HD-freakin'-Wiis?  Since when did people use a TV (aside from as an additional monitor) to browse the Internet and share their thoughts?


My gripe with Facebook is also that all these new features affect me in zero ways.  People say "Awesome! New updates."  I say, "Why bother?  Nothing new to not only benefit me, but to do nothing to me."


I sound like a crotchety old man.

You know it's true...Everything I do...