Brownvagabonder's Blog

As a blogger, whenever you write something, you hope that it will be received well. I usually write random topics ranging from what happened during the day to world events. All my blogs are based on my powers of observation. I love people watching and my job as a server allows me to do that on a daily basis, which is a total bonus. I am sometimes surprised by what topic suddenly takes hold and the public seems to like. It is usually the blog that I wasn’t really interested in, I just wrote it because I thought it was something to write about, that a lot of times garners a lot of interest.

I find that technology and loneliness, despair in the old age, surviving the end of the world, are common topics that people search for and come by to my blog. Looking at topics, either I am writing a really dire, unhappy blog, or a lot of people out there are really dire and unhappy. Whatever it is, I have also found that people search a lot for happiness online. I can understand lonely people searching online for companionship, to relieve themselves of their loneliness, the only way people really know now, after being shielded by technology all their lives. But I cannot understand people searching for happiness online. How can you find happiness online? That is something incomprehensible to me. I find distraction online very easily, through the various blogs that make fun of awkward family photos or fail blogs.

I wonder about the future generations. My generation, who are in their twenties now, has had the internet in their life only for about ten years, so half their lives. Maybe that has caused the internet not to be such an influence on their life as much as the next generation. The generation born in 2000 or later, who has been the internet generation. They were born into the privilege and with it comes great responsibility. They have no other way of communicating with others. They do not know what letter-writing and mail is all about. It would be really interesting to see how these people delineate loneliness and technology, or despair in old age. Will they be searching for such terms? Maybe they are so used to the notion of being separated by technology that they will not even think of it as anything different?

Technology isn’t all bad, of course. It was able to prevent the loss of thousands of lives in Japan, by forewarning the people about the earthquake to come. When you consider the devastation that could’ve happened, a thousand lives lost is pretty discerning.