It's been a while since I last logged in my Facebook account. Why? Because I was spending too much time on it, I was involuntarily checking the page every 15 minutes for updates, craving for news from people that are currently not part of my life anymore. That is the negative effect Facebook was having on me: forcing me to spend time and energy with more people that I can handle, all together, and was not giving me the reward I always got, which is to become more intimate with each individual, have the feeling of being part of someone's life and have someone be part of mine. Millions of users access the website daily for many different purposes, and I was already starting to wonder if I was alone in my dilemma. Turns out there are many of us, books have already been published on this topic, I would not be surprised to find a Facebook page dedicated to this. I will share all the different ways Facebook seems to be affecting people on the next lines, and if you agree, well... I...
Times change, mankind evolves, the computational power jumps exponentially... Some would say: "Where the hell does human touch go in this history?". Well, some would be completely right. Unfortunately for the ones like me who had little opportunity to get to know many of my family members, and even when I did have the chance I was too shy to talk about something relevant, the internet and technology could mean something bigger than just more expensive-mobile-cloud stuff. Have you ever tried to search for your name on google? Or maybe search for someone you know? More important than that: have you ever wondered what your kids will get when they search for you on the web? Or your grandkids? Or maybe someone further in your genealogical tree? Sometimes I ask myself how would my father or my mother think when they were my age. Would it be weird at all to talk to them? Of course, it would, times were very different back there, but anyway, knowing them back there could help a lot ...