Returning and the reality of Social Media

Came back from Palmerston North and a break away to a dog that was absolutely black.
Why you say was he black. He had been accompanying my father to work in a chimney cleaning van for the week.

Im glad he was able to get out everyday, and meet customers, get some fresh air etc. he even was able to convince my father to buy him sausage rolls, goodness knows how many of those he ate in a week.

So my first order of business today was to give him a soak in the bath and clean him up. Now hopefully when he dries off properly he will be bright sparkling and new with white fur like how a bichon frieze is meant to look.

At the moment he's pissed off with me for bathing him and refusing to come out of his basket. Guess he is throwing a little tantrum such as a child may do. Cant blame him really its not that nice outside even though there is blue sky I wouldn't say it is super warm just comfortable.

So whilst he dries off I have plastered myself to write something on my blog.

Been chatting to one of my friends on Facebook just finding out the latest Goss. Cos lets face it thats what Facebook is for. To be present with one another and share positive and not so positive things.
Its so impersonal though, unlike a hand written letter, sent in a envelope with a stamp. Now when I used to get one of those I treasured it. It meant that a friend of mine valued my friendship with him or her, and took time out of their busy schedule to hand write a letter or a card.

Many of these i have kept and often refer to on the down days.
Now that is one of the things i miss about the ole times.

Its so unusual to receive a hand written letter now that email and Facebook and twitter have taken their place. But do you get the meaning behind it when you read msgs through these other formats?Do they have the same value?

One thing i cant get my head around is twitter as a form of social communication. Seems like just a bunch of nothings put on the web. Please tell me if i am wrong.

Also who wants everyone knowing their business 24/7 I would say i am quite a private person, and prefer to talk to one or two individuals a wk rather than the whole of New Zealand or the whole of the world for that matter. With twitter its so wide spread and once your comment is out there on the net there is no way you can retract it. Not to mention you become very self conscious of how many followers you have, and if you do not have many followers you start to worry, thinking whats wrong with me? so in effect does twitter encourage low self esteem issues? rejection? abandonment.?
something to think about and ponder perhapes.

How far have we really come in modern communications when theres such a downside.