There are so many people who want to say hello and then they don’t, glued to their screens. Friendship has now been relegated to an on-line phenomenon. I remember when I got a computer read out for a letter and how put off I was in the early eighties. Now emails are so common space and web cam chats are so widespread that the average Joe does this without thinking. One question I have is where we are going socially with the advent of digitalized media and the mass movement of verbal media across the Ethernet.

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Will it lead to supplanted chips that keep us in tab with employers? Will they then detect a unwanted behavior in the making?

It sounds like the stuff of 1984 and other futuristic novels where man is no longer allowed to think for himself. In fact for the most part, giving how control the media has over our lives, we are influenced beyond measure. The intensity if reports leaves dumbfounded at times. At other times I am no longer amazed at the weakening of family ties and the substitution of surrogate computer parents that feed information and console the geek when he is  alone.