'Digital age' still creates rifts between people
By: Garret Cook
Issue date: 3/11/10 Section: Opinion
But I got older, and cell phones and Internet service became as common and as necessary as handkerchiefs and wrist watches. And I moved out of the sticks to Nacogdoches, still in the sticks but not quite as deeply in the sticks as my home town.
I met a lot of people who were from other places like Houston and Dallas where people run as tight as ticks in a dog's ear and told everybody everything that was going on with them via one of the magical devices I listed at the top of the article. Somebody sees you somewhere with someone, and before you know it you're a celebrity. Believe me, this isn't narcissism talking. It's the truth.
I realize that gossips and busybodies are nothing new. I suppose I've just always been annoyed with them, whether the jawing is about me or someone else. For all the "social networking" that Facebook promotes, it has become more of, in the words of my dear aunt, "a big gossip." I've heard people complaining about someone who might have possibly been taking digs at them through a status update or wall post. Implications, mind you, on an Internet forum. What happened to looking at someone and telling them what was on your mind?
Never mind. They'll probably text it to someone when you're done.
I met a lot of people who were from other places like Houston and Dallas where people run as tight as ticks in a dog's ear and told everybody everything that was going on with them via one of the magical devices I listed at the top of the article. Somebody sees you somewhere with someone, and before you know it you're a celebrity. Believe me, this isn't narcissism talking. It's the truth.
I realize that gossips and busybodies are nothing new. I suppose I've just always been annoyed with them, whether the jawing is about me or someone else. For all the "social networking" that Facebook promotes, it has become more of, in the words of my dear aunt, "a big gossip." I've heard people complaining about someone who might have possibly been taking digs at them through a status update or wall post. Implications, mind you, on an Internet forum. What happened to looking at someone and telling them what was on your mind?
Never mind. They'll probably text it to someone when you're done.
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