I have been meaning to write this for some time, but I’ve never been able to find a good time and mood to actually get to it. As some of you might know, my once time good friend moved to Canada before I moved to Holland. This did bring us geographically closer (about 1200 kilometers), but the fact remains that I haven’t seen him for over five years. I know, from his parents and his two younger brothers, who came over during the holiday last year that he’s doing pretty welll at uni and has moved out, etc… But is this true.
One of my colleagues said recently: “If you’re not on facebook, you don’t exist”. Following this logic, my good friend is dead. He is not on facebook, or myspace or any other thingy. Which is surprising considering he’s studying something to do with computers (don’t ask because I really have no idea), he’s only one year older than me, so the whole “oh it’s a generation thing” does not apply. Also, his brother and his father have a feacebook page and therefore, they EXIST. No seriously, you can’t even google him and get anything fresher than 2006.
It simply must be so! Only people with real friends have no use for facebook, and we know that those people (ie real friends and people with real friends) don’t exist. Why wouldn’t a young person, who will leave uni in a year or two (yeah, he’s like really smart, y’know) would not network. I mean, underneathy it all, we’re all on the net because we hope that the people we keep in touch with can later be useful. So, I better start thinking of an obituary…
OK, it’s obviosly April Fool’s and I don’t think he’s dead, but it does make me think… Weird.
Peter S
PS: I’ve seen this book in the faculty bookshop, the 1001 most beautiful places in the world (places as in: historical/cultural sites). For Slovakia, there was only one place, the infamous Cachtice castle ruins, the castle that belonged too and was used by the charming Blood Countess. For more info about this charming personality click here. But seriously, there are nicer spots in the country than a gloomy, crubling old ruin. It kinda pissed me off.
