Technology is Kinda Freaky

That has been my latest discovery today.

Today, I went to my Goodreads Page just messing around with it--I don't log into that site too often, but I try to check it every week, or every few days, if I have been reading a lot.

Anyway, I saw a little place that said "link your blog" to the author page. So, figuring that I'd have to do something to tweak my blog to make it work, I tried it, expecting it to fail.

Imagine my surprise when it worked seamlessly.

And I have to say, it rather freaked me out. Not that I didn't like the quick connection, as a matter of fact, the reason I'm posting this particular blog is to see if it automatically posts to Goodreads, or if I have to do something to update it.

I never professed to be the most internet savvy, but I can usually figure stuff out. However, so many codes and connections got me thinking about how fast we are connecting ourselves to each other, and is it really the best idea?

I think of Drew Barrymore's line in "She's Just Not That Into You," and it illustrates it perfectly.

I had this guy leave me a voice mail at work so I called him at home and then he e-mailed me to my Blackberry and so I texted to his cell and then he e-mailed me to my home account and the whole thing just got out of control. And I miss the days when you had one phone number and one answering machine and that one answering machine has one cassette tape and that one cassette tape either had a message from a guy or it didn't. And now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It's exhausting.

And I know exactly what she means. We have all these ways to connect to each other, yet we don't connect any faster than we did when we had just a home phone and an answering machine. Instead, we now have a thousand ways to follow other people, see what they're up to, see if they're lying about not being available, etc, etc.

Don't get me wrong, it's wonderful to be able to get business out, and to get replies (in most businesses, anyway, publishing is still one of the slowest, lol) and move things along much faster. Which is great, especially for the impatient like me.

However, I do think on occasion, it's okay to unplug from the computer/phone/tablet, whatever, and just be.

How do you unplug?