Twitter : What are you doing ?
Liv : Working on a new article for my blog
Facebook : What's on your mind ?
Liv feels like dancing tonight, who's in ?
Social networks always ask their users what they are doing while the things they do is obvious : they're killing time checking their personal pages, admiring their profile pictures and spying on their so called friends or followers.
The only thing you could possibily write as a status on Twitter or Facebook is : I'm on Twitter, or I'm on Facebook.
But everyone knows that the Internet isn't about being honest...You have to be extraordinary, to always say something special, even when there's not much to tell. Updating your page is a new way to show the world you exist, and you have to let people know what you do just to stay in the newsfeeds, even if there's not much to do ! Otherwise people will think you're dead, or just borring which is even worse.
The Internet is the Kingdom of impermanence, and Boredom Land is its worst enemy.
So if you're getting bored and feel like saying it, buy yourself a diary, but don't even dare to let people know about it ! The new technologies are preventing us from doing nothing, and I have the feeling that it is now considered as a weakness to be bored once in a while...
Change or die, that's what the Internet says to us.
But a great philosopher once said that people who kept on running away from boredom were not the strongest ones because they were just scared of facing their own reality. Does anyone remember who it was ? Here's a clue...
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