“What are words for, when no one listens anymore?” – Missing Persons

I get a kick out of technology fucking us. Especially when it’s supposed to improve our lives. I’m still waiting for the inflatable driving dummy that can take me around town. Maybe it could have double purpose. They could make it to be a last minute date if you need it to be. And they can program it so you can get at LEAST to second base guaranteed after your date.  I’ll have to think about that some more.

Anyhoo, one of the biggest things I’ve noticed is what technology has done to communication, Other than the factors that keep you alive themselves, I can’t think of anything more important in life. (And that’s because I’m sure you’ll think it’s unreasonable of me to suggest that a warm brownie with ice cream is the most important).

Almost everything we do in this world will eventually require us to deal with other people. We have to work with other people and have to see even more people on your TV and movie screens. (Enter Pomeroy’s hate list by the by, which gets me though that BS).

So when we come up with innovations that allow us to improve our relations, shouldn’t that make communicating more prevalent and LESS annoying?

For instance, I’m not on board with text messaging. By the time I can type out a simple sentence, I’d rather call you. And doesn’t it cost a nickel or something to receive them? It’s not that it’s a lot of money, but it’s still irritating to pay 5 cents to do something I don’t want to do in the first place. My uncle never remembers this. And worst of all, I’ll get a text that reads:

“HEY DUDE! I MISS YOU I HOPE 2 SEE YOU”

First I shake my head in disgust that I got another text from him. And then I get a second one almost instantly:

“SOON”

Ugh.

I’m also mediocre on IM messaging. It doesn’t bother me as much as the texting, but I have my problems with it. I’ve been in a place where someone asks you a question, and you start typing an answer. Before you finish, you get another question. Your conversation becomes gobbledygook. You end up rushing to type “LOL” or something just to sneak a word in. I may throw the word “penis” at someone… that usually gets them to back off. Wouldn’t you?

And IM’s remind me of what it was like when I used to use a Nextel for work. It was hard to talk to someone. The first challenge you’d have is the awkward laugh-after-the-dumb-joke call. I’d call someone:

*breeep*

“What are you doing? Are you available?”

*breeep*

“No I’m not available, and I’m telling your girlfriend… ha ha ha ha”.

After this foolish exchange, I still have to laugh so I don’t seem like an a-hole. So I actually have to press the button with the only purpose to laugh at the dumb comment.

*breeep*

“Ha ha ha ha”.

The other pitfall you have is when some idiot forgets that everyone hears what they say when they call you. I’d be standing in the accounting office talking with people and some jerkoff would call up:

*breeep*

“Hey Pomeroy… are you sucking any dicks this weekend? A- HA HA HA HA HA HA HA “

*breeep*

(In front of everyone)

“Heh heh heh…. Call you later…. Heh heh”.

Myspace has it’s share of antics that rasp my ass too. I was recently telling a friend that you sometimes treat Myspace like a game, when in fact these are real people you’re dealing with. Writing doesn’t emote easily, so sometimes somebody may take something you’ve said the wrong way. That’s happened to me more than once on both sides of the problem.

Other times you lose a ‘friend’ and you don’t know why and you don’t know who it was. I had a photographer subscribe to this blog once assuming that I probably had a photography blog. I think it was the duh-z-do blog that lost them. 

And I hate the top friends thing. I compare it to a wedding invite list. At some point you have to draw the line.

“Well, if we invite Uncle Jimmy’s kids we have to invite Aunt Joanne’s kids”.

I’m supposed to choose 40 people to be on my front page, and then dismiss everyone else? I want to say to them “Well, you’re in my top 41.. hyuk hyuk hyuk”.

That’s like saying to someone “You’re in my top 16 favorite bands”.

It sucks!

And the randomization doesn’t work for me either. I don’t want friends I talk to every day to be buried away while some random band gets top billing. (I take in everyone on Myspace… I’m like a sieve in the friend acceptance category).

It actually must be tougher if you have fewer friends. What if you have 45 friends? Wow… I’m in the bottom 5, huh? Thanks for that.

I have to say though… I think Myspace helps you meet friends better than Facebook. Why would I friend up with a picture? I usually like to know who someone is before I request an add. What am I supposed to say? “Well, I enjoyed your face, hence the add request”.

Over there I don’t have to worry about a lot of requests I guess. This face won’t be in many books. That is, unless the Pepsi Cola company has thank you booklets for the stockholders with pictures of their largest consuming contributors. There you may see my smiling face. (Missing teeth, mind you… but I’ll be there).

Well, thanks for reading. I’ll continue to take your comments in the wrong context.

 Your top 41 friend on Myspace, 

 Pomeroy!