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Today:

Thought: The vacancy of thought, and wait for occupation.


Facebook. Thats right, flippin' facebook.

A sign of the times.

Facebook may well serve as a utility for mass networking and communication, but what is it really doing for people, what does it show and what should people attribute to it's success?

As per with most of my thoughts, I ask:

Is there a far more sinister undertone to this genius, time wasting tool?

The answers in the question.

What's sinister about it? I hear you ask, well, I'm glad you did, ponder this...

Geared towards those who wish to stay in relatively frequent communication, i.e the home surfers and occasional webbites, Facebook has thrived through it's ability to create networks not just as it did in it's humble academic institutions (which I remember singing up for many many moons ago as a student), but through the work place, and the workplaces of the friends of its users.

All friendly, easy going and fisher price like - so far so good.

However.

All those people, all those work places...surely there was something else, something we are all supposed to be doing...

Work, perhaps?

Have we evolved so far ahead that we can multi task, juggling work and play at the same time?

Perhaps.

Or is there something else, something silently screaming at us from the back benches?

Here's what I thought...

I attribute Facebook's boundless success to the unsatisfied, unfulfilled, and numbed generation of button pushing drones the modern workplace has unintentionally created. Unintentionally removing the enjoyment, excitement and the enduring appeal of career. All of this, in place of the current state of affairs, leaving society of young (ish) people of which I am a demographic member of, in the work place.

They are bored people. Bored, bored, bored.

Not all you understand, there are those who would disagree. they are the ones that come on every now and then, casually changing their status from, "Nick is Eating Toast" to Nick is glad to have finished all his meetings for the day", chortling all the way. What jolly japes.

You know the ones.

Call me crazy, but to me, everyone I see online and at play on Facebook appears to have the same traits, and be in lack luster jobs with either not enough to do, or not enough inner oomph to do it.

A sign of the times, yes.

A warning?

Probably.

Nick is ...done with this blog...