317752's blog: "Truer Words Were Never Spoken"

While returnng page love today I stopped by Father Aldoray FM2 STG's page, http://fubar.com/7072690, and the video on his page absolutely floored me... it is a rap lyric by an artist named Prince Ea and "truer words were NEVER spoken."  You can see the video on Aldo's page or on youtube, but please, if you never read another fubar blog, READ THIS ONE!!!

Did you know the average person spends four years of his life looking down at his cellphone?
Kinda ironic, ain’t it?
How these touch screens can make us… lose touch.
But it’s no wonder in a world filled with iMacs, iPads and iPhones.
So many “I’s”! So many selfies! Not enough “us’s” and “we’s”! See?

Technology has made us more selfish and separate than ever.
‘Cause while it claims to connect us, connection has gotten no better.
And let me express first, Mr Zuckerberg, not to be rude, but,
You should re-classify Facebook to what it is: an ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK.
‘Cause while we may have big friend lists so many of us are friendless, all alone,
‘Cause  friendships are more broken, and on our screens, on our very phones,
We sit at home on our computers, measuring self-worth by numbers of followers and likes,
Ignoring those who actually love us.
It seems we’d rather write an angry post than talk to someone who might actually hug us.

Am I buggin? You tell me…

‘Cause I asked a friend the other day let’s meet up face to face.
They said “All right. What time do you want to Skype?”
I responded with OMG, SRS and then a bunch of SMHs and realized…
“What about me? Do I not have the patience to have conversation without abbreviation?”
This is the generation of media overstimulation.
Chats have been reduced to snaps, the news is 140 characters, videos are 6 seconds at high-speed,
And you wonder why ADD is on the rise faster than 4G LTE, but, get a load of this:
Studies show that the attention span of the average adult today is one second lower than that of a goldfish.

So, if you are one of the few people who are aquatic animals, that have yet to click off or close this video, congratulations.

Let me finish by saying that YOU DO HAVE A CHOICE.
Yes, but this one my friends, we cannot auto-correct. We must do it ourself.
Take control of it, be controlled, make a decision.

Me?

No longer do I want to spoil a precious moment by recording it with a phone.
I’m just going to keep them.
I don’t want to take a picture of all of my meals anymore.
I’m just going to eat them.
I don’t want the new app, the new software, or the new update.
And if I want to post an old photo, who says I have to wait until Thursday?

I am so tired of performing in a pageantry of vanity and conforming to this accepted form of digital insanity.
Call me crazy but, I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries.
‘Cause that’ll mean that we will be one bar closer... to humanity.

Social Awareness.... 'nuff said!