The evolution of friendship (this applies globally)
The evolution of friendship has taken a very awesome turn. Our technology has allowed us to establish friends, retain friends, and nurture friendships further than ever before.
Aim, Myspace, internet, cell phones, and other technology truly allows me to carry on relationships with my friends in Goleta as if I were still right there. The little shout out through the day makes one feel like they are in another part of the same building not a 100 miles away. Or better yet what about my friends that live in other parts of the world??? Nope haven't lost contact with them either. In fact it's ODD when I go more then two weeks and haven't heard from them.
Quality commentary prevails as well. If People have a single line they wish to utter, they do not have to call their friend have an introduction, proceed into depth and then tell them what they are want to get around too, end the conversation and hang up. No, we get to go straight to the punchline now friends and send the truly world changing TEXT MESSAGE. I know many people who have a larger text message package then minute plan on their phone. Text messages are amazing. They allow for people to stay connected all day long when they are in completely opposite situations. Let me tell you, Brazil feels down the street when you can tell your husband, btw, "I'm eating lunch." It's like I passed him on way to lunch and gave him a holler.
It also leads to connections that just never would have happened. "Missed it by that much." Will continue to become a rarer and rarer thing in the future. I reconnected recently (yes via myspace) with a friend from high school that I haven't seen in seven years. We now have hung out twice, and found out that coincidently we are going to Vegas the exact same weekend. And yes, we're going to tear it up together. I mean if it weren't for technology we would have crossed paths and never known.
I guess some of this comes at a cold price. We don't know our neighbors anymore. We don't. I don't even know what the people that share common walls with me even look like! Is this good or bad? It's hard to say. But in some ways I would argue good, we're in such a temporary world, there's a high chance Ryan and I won't even live here longer than a year, should we really make the effort to establish relationships? But I do believe that when the day finally comes and we become proud owners of a house (in Goleta) I will want to get to know my neighbors. We will definitely be putting in some roots. And let me tell you, what's wrong with both? The next door neighbor friends and the friends who we have through technology? Nothing. Who says the world can't be a better overall then it was yesterday? (Of course that would be a whole new discussion)
Aim, Myspace, internet, cell phones, and other technology truly allows me to carry on relationships with my friends in Goleta as if I were still right there. The little shout out through the day makes one feel like they are in another part of the same building not a 100 miles away. Or better yet what about my friends that live in other parts of the world??? Nope haven't lost contact with them either. In fact it's ODD when I go more then two weeks and haven't heard from them.
Quality commentary prevails as well. If People have a single line they wish to utter, they do not have to call their friend have an introduction, proceed into depth and then tell them what they are want to get around too, end the conversation and hang up. No, we get to go straight to the punchline now friends and send the truly world changing TEXT MESSAGE. I know many people who have a larger text message package then minute plan on their phone. Text messages are amazing. They allow for people to stay connected all day long when they are in completely opposite situations. Let me tell you, Brazil feels down the street when you can tell your husband, btw, "I'm eating lunch." It's like I passed him on way to lunch and gave him a holler.
It also leads to connections that just never would have happened. "Missed it by that much." Will continue to become a rarer and rarer thing in the future. I reconnected recently (yes via myspace) with a friend from high school that I haven't seen in seven years. We now have hung out twice, and found out that coincidently we are going to Vegas the exact same weekend. And yes, we're going to tear it up together. I mean if it weren't for technology we would have crossed paths and never known.
I guess some of this comes at a cold price. We don't know our neighbors anymore. We don't. I don't even know what the people that share common walls with me even look like! Is this good or bad? It's hard to say. But in some ways I would argue good, we're in such a temporary world, there's a high chance Ryan and I won't even live here longer than a year, should we really make the effort to establish relationships? But I do believe that when the day finally comes and we become proud owners of a house (in Goleta) I will want to get to know my neighbors. We will definitely be putting in some roots. And let me tell you, what's wrong with both? The next door neighbor friends and the friends who we have through technology? Nothing. Who says the world can't be a better overall then it was yesterday? (Of course that would be a whole new discussion)
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