Our modern electronic culture has moved from your basic text and email to a non-stop in your Facebook twitterpating maniacal craze. People are spending countless hours tweating, twitting and facing life. While I am certain that some of this is good, consider the number of hours talking to no one. Well yes I suppose you do talk, but not face to face. (And to be fair, it's not unlike what I'm doing now. I'm talking to no one, just writing my opinions).
But consider numbers like 400, 5,000, 10,000 etc. Why are those numbers important. I've heard of people on Facebook having 400 "friends." Now I'm not the most popular person on the planet so maybe I'm not a good example, but I KNOW I don't have 400 friends. MAYBE 40. So why is that important. First of all, no one has 400 friends. If we say they have the 40 I mentioned, what are the other 360 doing? They're simply voyeurs looking into that persons life. They're "watching" that person via the internet. Watching some fairly intimate details. Watching and waiting for an opportunity to cause some kind of harm. Think I'm kidding, read or watch the news.
The other two numbers 5k and 10k are fairly large. Those are the number of text messages (or twits, tweats etc) that ONE person has done in a month. Do the math - 5,000 divided by 30 is 167 per DAY which is about 7 per hour for EVERY hour which is about 1 every 10 minutes! For 10k that's about 1 every 5 minutes! Is it any wonder that we feel stressed out!
Finally consider this recent development. Today is the "National Day of Prayer." We have had a formal National Day of Prayer for 58 years. For the first time in 7 years, the office of the White House will NOT have any kind of prayer meeting. HOWEVER, they will begin to Facebook and Twitter in the coming days.
So instead of getting on his knees and talk to God to ask for guidance, our newly elected 'savior of the world' will get on his BlackBerry and talk to the rest of the world to tell them what a great job he's doing.
Sorry I gotta go, I have 10,000 prayer messages to get in before lunch.
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