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I am one of the millions upon millions who have been swept by the global phenomenon that is social networking.  Today we are inundated with different ways to “keep in touch” with the rest of the world through sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Multiply and of course, the ill-fated, continuously crumbling empire of Friendster.  Somehow, technology has managed to transform the sacrosanct institution of friendship into an electronical bubble filled with Instant Messages, Facebook Status Updates and Twits (sorry, tweets.  pun intended. I really don’t need to know every idiot thing you do with your hairbrush).  We have found a way to miniaturize human relationships into a warble of lols, lmfaos, brbs, afks, bffs and ilys.

Yipee for the miraculous inventions of the computer age.

The Baby Boomers, Gen X’ers have been replaced by the Facebook Generation.  Hardly a minute goes by where we don’t type something on our blackberries, cel phones, laptops, notebooks and/or PC’s.  The english language has been contaminated by three letter internet acronyms which aim to reduce the herculean effort it takes to actually sit down and have a conversation.  Ever so slowly, our jobs are starting to intefere with our personal life with urgent requests from the boss or alerts for servers on the fritz.  Don’t look know, but the Internet is taking over.  It’s only a matter of time before some super-villain wannabe creates a sentient robot that will make the Terminator movies look like a Smurf Summer Special.

Modern technology is even destroying good old fashioned relationships.  Why try to date a girl when you can search for your electronic “match” at dating service websites?

And you know what the biggest irony is here?  It’s not that we’ve managed to reduce a 15 minute conversation to a 3 page text message.  It’s not that we have managed to advance GPS technology.  It’s not that we’ve simplified connecting with old friends to a single click of the mouse.  The Irony is that these technologies that have so conveniently replaced our need for interpersonal relations were actually invented by techie virgin nerds who probably couldn’t produce a tenth of the 500 friends you have on Facebook.

Yes, the very technology you hold in your hands to access google maps, the very click of the mouse that allows you to go online on Facebook, the very concept of having virtual relationships with your physical friends have been brought about by the scruffy looking nerf herders who have tried to summon darth vader through the force or the guys who have princess leia shrines in their bedrooms.

In a nutshell, the creators of the social sites that you so love were probably the social pariahs in your school.

Funny how the world works huh?