Social Networks and the Decay of Reality...

I started a Recipe blog for myself - to allow me to share my recipes with friends and find them myself easily no matter where I am.

Then, I got invited by a group of climbing buddies to join Multiply. A fellow climber works for the company - and it seems like a perfect place for maintaining a climbing blog. So, I have a climbing blog...

And, when I got back from India, I got an invite to a group on Facebook. So - now I have a facebook account - where I blog on my ties to India.

So - I have just as fractured an online personality as in reality - and maintaining 4 blogs takes up a little more time from reality. Not sure if that is a good or a bad thing...

But the more I think about it - apart from family, travel and climbing, I really have no interest in the real world...I could very easily spend my entire time in virtual reality.

My mother's generation did it by using the Television, mine is the internet - and I see my kids using gaming as the alternate reality. I suppose the 60's generation used drugs for it - so did many other cultures. Some use books - art - science. So, short of the time where we were preoccupied by eating or being eaten, was there ever really any time in history where being immersed into a distraction was not a way of life?

I would seem that the decay of reality is an ancient phenomenon indeed!