As incomprehensible as it sounds, I have been placed on Level 4 Timeout, just days after explaining the Timeout Level System. I’m sure you can understand I’m a little dazed. I, the innovator of the Timeout Level System, have been defriended using the very guidelines I set in stone in blog format. Evidently the friend who defriended me claims that I am no friend in the end, due to my lack of contact via Facebook. I have said it before, and am now saying it again, Facebook is just another roadside bomb in the internet insurgency against real human social interaction. My unceremonious dismissal into Level 4dom with the touch of a button is another perfect example. In the real world people would have to face each other, speak even, and dare I say, make eye contact. In the real world people would be quicker to forgive a week or so, or month maybe, of neglect, because they would have to face each other’s emotions, and deal with the repercussions. Facebook, and any other medium of the like, sidesteps all tangible relations between friends and acquaintances and makes a mockery of the very definition of society. It’s too easy to befriend and defriend in the internet age. I wonder if there will come a time when there are no true friends at all, when people merely leave electronic messages for each other, and “block” each other for not messaging back in due course. One day will all our friends merely be profile pictures that send us trivial messages once in a while like, “Hey!! Wuts up???” or “Laaaaaatttteeee.” Maybe we’ll be unable to cope with the lack of human contact. Maybe society itself will crumble under the pressures of pretend friendships that never measure up.
Maybe I’m just pissed that I got put on Level 4 Timeout.
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