antisocial networking.
this is supposedly the age of connection,
so how is that we hide from face-to-face
by informing our social network that
mountain dew throwback is the
best thing on the planet?
we can find trivia with the click of a button,
yet we miss the person in front of us,
concerning ourselves with the worldwide
reach of our tweets (and still, nobody
has given me a satisfactory answer for
what the hell a tweet is anyway).
my days begin and end before a screen as
i bow down before the digital god of information
and i find myself curious as to how
i became more machine than man.
we have defaced ourselves and one another,
studying profile pictures, yet not seeing persons.
we analyze text message hermeneutics, yet
we don't really listen to voices.
the viral community is aptly named,
infecting us as we denigrate human worth
laughing at (i don't buy "with") scarlet as
she takes a tumble or the heartbroken cry of
a man whose addiction has plagued a family.
have we really become so calloused that our
fellows, those who share with us this world,
are nothing more to us than a cheap laugh?
what has happened to our humanity?
what has happened to the hearts we once
opened to welcome those who are in pain?
did they get carpal tunnel syndrome
concurrently with our hands? or do we
just have nothing to offer anymore?
we must always remember that it not
enough just to be facebook friends,
we are have to be brothers, too.
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