The Technological Circle of Life

If you've ever read Zits - the comic strip - then you might find the following amusing.

Jeremy, the 15 year old boy, comes up with a brilliant idea. Cell phones, he says are becoming smaller and smaller, as part of a trend towards conveneince. BUT, he says, what if there were NO cell phones! What if, instead of cell phones, we have a system by which phones are placed around the city for us to use at our own convenience! Wouldn't that be great!?

"Yeah," his dad says. "They're called payphones."

The almost ridiculousness of facebook was realized upon me last night when I recieved an email notifying me that someone had written on my wall. This isn't new.

What was new was that the notification email also contained the message written on my wall. Now that's convenient. I don't have to log into my facebook account to see what's on my wall. I can see it in my inbox. The same now goes if someone sends me a message on facebook.

So now, not only do I get an email saying I have a message, but I get an email saying I have a message with the message in it!!

If only they could set up facebook so that I could just hit reply, and a return message would be posted on the wall of the person who posted on mine. Brilliant!!

OR - I could just write that person an email, since I am at my own email inbox already. But I didn't. I went signed into facebook and wrote on his wall.