Thursday, May 20, 2010

Yada Yada Yada Ba Ba Sams.Really.

I'm back! Really! This is going to become a routine. Really.You will enjoy reading this daily. Really?

I have not conquered my FB addiction. So hard to not go on there and check out whatever and whomever. Really it is the best way for me to keep up with what the Jones' are doing. Not that I NEED to know, just like to. I have let my farm go. I have gone into hiding from the Mafia. The health department has probably shut down my Cafe. And my city I check on here and there, I am trying to get enough money to build a church, but those heathens in my town won't raise any for me. I am working on it. Really.

Recently I signed up (via Keith calling and saying "You need to do this.")for an online Bible study facilitating class. One of the get- to -know- you, laced with you- get -to- know- the- program, and get -you- thinking- about- things assignments was to make an argument against online Bible teaching. Most of our arguments contained this over abundance of internet use already in our lives. It taking the personal away from relationships. And it has.

I think it is a double edged sword. For introverts especially. Blogs, Facebook, online facilitating, get us 'talking' because we are not really having to deal with people and what they think, how they are looking at us, the noise they have coming out of their mouths. So these opportunities to relate with others is a good thing. We tell a bit about ourselves that no one has a clue about. We are able 'listen' and respond to others, because we can injest what they say and think about it before speaking, with out having that deer in the headlights look we all feel when we get when in public and are expected to respond to someone.

Then there is the the other side of the sword, we get stuck at home pecking away, spouting a bit too much, getting all comfortable being in our own worlds and we don't socialize with real people on real time in reality. We lie to ourselves and think we ARE socializing, we have made that people connection, because we HAVE talked to these people online. When actually we are feeding our 'get out there' aversion. To find the balance is the issue. Really.

Special K (husband) is an extrovert, and he HATES doing online anything. Not on Facebook, does not blog, of course. He barely reads anything, just for information actually, because books are just someone elses opinion or ideas, and he has his own. He gets his information from people themselves, he talks to them and sometimes listens to them, they are usually listening to him I think.