Ahh, Say It Ain't So

This morning, like most mornings in the past few months; I opened my eyes, thanked God for another day, grabbed my Blackberry and proceeded to tweet my good morning tweet. As the little update circle on Ubertwitter began to twirl and twirl with no results, I then noticed...there was a problem. At first, I was good and ready to call T-Mobile and request they send me another Blackberry. I've had issues with mine before, freezing up and giving me the never-ending hourglass of death. I exited out of Ubertwitter and tried good ole Twitterberry...nothin'. Okay, how about mobile web...that wouldn't even load the Twitter page. At this point, I'm frustrated and honestly, feeling like something is definitely wrong!

I get out of bed, head straight to my living room and get on my laptop. Okay, the globe is there...I'm connected..NO TWITTER!!!!! By now, I'm fully prepared to just lay down and give up the ghost. No Twitter connection means I'm cut off from a good 200+ people, but at least 25 people that I actually talk with on a daily basis. These people are almost like friends to me, we share jokes, euphemisms, daily work rants and just general happenings.

I got smart...there's always Blackberry Messenger!! Lucky me! lol So, I get on my bbm and send a message to my best friend to check if her Twitter is working, to which she informs me it's not. For good measure, I bbm a few other Twitter peeps who also share bbm with me, we're all hurting cause there's no Twitter. Somewhere, in the midst of like four conversations with people a thought dawned on me. Well, for one...I'm a twitter addict (and I'm sure I'm not alone on that) and for two, as a society we rely waaaaay to much on technology. In that 2 hour window of time in which I was frantically trying to find a Twitter signal, I could have been occupying my time better. How many of us can really go back to the time before the internet consumed us with watching YouTube videos, posting messages on friends' Facebook walls, updating our MySpace pages, and now as a Twitter-friend of mine said, "tweeting your life away". (shout out to @SoleCraver lol) He had a point though, whether he meant it the way he said it or not, at the essence of his words stood a very valid point. We are such a socially connected society that we spend a ridiculous amount of time behind our computers, phones and whatnot 'internetting our lives away'.

Now, don't misunderstand me. I'm glad that we live in a society in which we're able to connect with people all over our nation and our world by a mere click of the "follow" icon, and chances are, I'm probably not going to stop social networking. However, the thought is scary that if we lost all of this today...what would we do? That's something to chew on, because if you're reading this blog, you're connected. You may also have tabs up for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Skype...etc. So, if it does end one day in a cataclysmic event...I'm glad to have met you all, much love! (lmao) Hope I didn't freak ya out too much! <3