About 14 yeras ago, I started my interest in the web. As i started hearing about something called “email” and started to realize the possibility to communicate electronically with one another. It was then, when I thought, wow, that’s exactly what I would love to be able doing with my relatives in the US.
Well, it’s taken a bit more than 14 years, and I still don’t have all the e-mail addresses I imagined, and many of the one’s I got, are no longer valid.
None-the-less, this week, I was contacted by at least 4 people through Facebook or have contacted them myself, which I had long believed to be “lost contacts”.
Sometimes you meet people in life, who you instantly feel connected to and yet, you know, although you’d really like to, you will most likely never see them again.
Until now, whenever I met someone like that, I would use one of my favorite sayings: “You always meet twice in life!” (which has already happened to me many times and also has served as inspiration to meet people again).
Today I think Facebook has killed this wonderful saying.
In our modern world, we can connect and become friends on social networks such as Facebook, whenever and whereever we may meet, be it yet so remote.
I guess, as of now, we will part by saying “see you around” rather than, “if chance will have it, we will meet again”.
Thanks Facebook for killing my favorite exit-line! 🙂
If we take this thought or development a bit further, we soon won’t be using text-based status-updates anymore, but will rather be using near real-time video updates or actual live streams instead.
Well, I guess I’ll see you around…
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