Friends Becoming Strangers

Friends Becoming Strangers | Men's Health Singapore

I read that article online today and it hit the nail right on the head.  I've been "off the grid", ie social media, for a little over the week.  I still do login once a day just to see if there are any messages sent to me or anything important (which doesn't make any sense because important to me would be a friend of mine contacting me regarding something urgent, which facebook would be a poor choice of communication).  One of the reason I stopped going onto facebook was I noticed that I don't contact my friends personally for a what's up.  Instead of texting them and have a conversation (which also is a poor form of communication) where we would at least exchange a couple of texts w/o fearing others can see our conversation, we would post on wall or have a conversation on a status update but I think it's just unauthentic because we can't fully express ourselves in a public forum.  It is more personal now.

Regarding the short blog above, it is interesting he pointed out that he sees two people going out and be on their phone.  I never got that.  LIVE IN THE PRESENT!  I've thought about this before, I've noticed that the times that I have the most fun are the ones that aren't posted on facebook, because I'm actually having fun and doing other things other than reading about others PRETENDING they are having fun or PRETENDING myself that I am having fun.  When people are truly enjoying life, they don't have time to waste it reading about others or posting what they're doing right now so others know about it, all that matters is the memory you had, not digital.