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Oh my god! I am older than internet!!!!
I woke up this sunday morning with this geek neurosis, suddenly feeling terribly old and rrrrushing to my computer to confirm that it was only a bad wake-up confusion.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf53PczuJXc]
But no, it was there, in front of my browser I could feel my senile arthritis, my fingers tapping same old familiar adresses, my reflexes being sterilized and the randomness having somehow disappeared from my contact with the internet. Before I began preparing my Facebook “so long” event, I stopped a while
and thought about this paradox. How can this organism that functions 24/7, can work against what we know and manage to keep its youth and firm ?
Internet has apparently found the answer to aging-free eternity, buzzing cheerfully in the face of its devoted aging fans (me!). And as its commodization sets in, the evolution is a thing of younger and younger devoted fans (me?, hmmm….).
Having a sunday coffee with a friend only made my neurosis worse (he was paris, not woody allen). We chatted about our home social crisis, which is initially and significantly driven by 15y.o. teens.
To give you another picture, imagine Greece as a football field:
Right in the center you have about 1.000.000 young active people trying to play football, and everybody else packed in the seating area. The rest of the field is empty. <void>
Not because there is a gathering prohibit like in the parisian 2005 events, but simply people in the comfortable seats feel the field as their garden and the grass is not to step on.
Sometimes some young at hearts have a walk there, like dogs enjoying the city.
Are they visible?
When you have a certain age, sharp vision and hearing is quite an issue.
To bridge the gap, the masscha media, have placed their cameras to zoom in the field and journalists to amplify the sound. You now wake up with very educating tv-magazines that explain in the morning breeze the complex dynamics of action and reaction in social crisis.
You learn about corruption, politics, sociology theories, with your morning coffee. And then you go search for handkerchiefs from your local store and the old lady analyzes the dirty secrets of police to her peers…Excellent!
To come back to my neurosis, this time I realized that I am sitting around the green and not in it. It’s not that I don’t have energy or reason, it is my social network that has classified me in the oldies (but goodies I hope). As simple as this, since I don’t have friends in highschool, and I don’t live right in the heart of the Exarcheia “anarchy ghetto” (mercy masscha) I get to learn things with a delay long enough to receive them and not live them.
My hi5, facebook and me!cha refugees have wrinkles, so so do I…
No matter in how many protesting facebook groups I sign up, I see and hear the internet getting younger as I get doggy.
Georgia
bonus quizz :
What is the news in this video ? or me!cha vs masscha live from your TV
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