And then there was the internet, "don't speak or look at me!!"

BY GEORGE KAGAME


The social networking and online dating sites like this one are one of the latest inventions concepts in a consumer society. In this society, every aspect of life is geared towards making all of us into consumers and participants to a drama that has become our lives than actually living it.

Lets see, when you're out with friends on a trip or a night/day out, chances are that you will be more occupied with taking pictures of all the moments to upload on facebook than actually enjoying the time out or the company of our friends. When you get home, very carefully prepared adverts of the camera you're using the pictures await you on the television.
Two, Instead of speaking to somebody in a night club or bar, some marketing agency has done that for you. The club hoists its advert on the web and tells prospective patrons of the day that today they have a ladies night and therefore whoever is coming to the theme night needs no company. The advert will also give you pick up lines once you get inside the club, a prospective target for your advances would also have been propped up on what to expect. And so as you dance your way to the object of your desire on the dance floor or counter, everybody in the body club can tell what you're up to. The feeling between hunter and prey is amicable. It is possible that when you go dancing these days you'll end up between the legs and arms of someone whose name you don't even know and most certainly know nothing about other than the fact that your sexual appetite is at an all time low!

When you wake up the next morning, both of you are more concerned with where you dropped your pants and running away from each other's space as fast as you can. You get on the bus or train to your home early in the morning as if you worked the night shift the previous night. As you ride to your place you don't want any eye contact with a person seated next to you on the train or bus. After all he/she is from home to their job wand they're fresh for a new day while you're on the way to your home from your away romp and after a quick shower then to your work. You will report to work late on a monday and therefore start the week on a sour note and most probably end it that way. A life of stress, you'll spend the entire week watching watching adverts on how to fight stress and the any medicines to fight it.

The internet-which upon its creation in the late 1980s was said to make life so simple has instead complicated it and created machines out of human beings, robots. WE are tasteful,lazy, suspicious and choosy bunch, full of fear, uncreative and many assumptions about the person seated next to us on the bus and the cafe. Like the creation of our hands and minds, the internet has made human beings of our generation into commodities, especially the ones living in the west. But with the launching of the EASSY marine cable network in East and South Africa last week, even Africans are going this way soon.

As you head to your apartment in the morning after a night in the club and sleeping over at somebody's place-who picked you up in the club-you're torn between two worlds. On one hand you're happy that you were conquered and so will be planning on what to wear or say next time you're out so as to appear a more successful candidate to be picked up. As a result you will spend most of your time browsing askmen.com or Ivillage.com.

On the other hand you're regretting within, how cheap have you become? You're not much different from a prostitute, a gigolo, there's a price tag on your head. You're predictable,. You are a piece of auction, open to the highest bidder. While these things are taking place in your head, you don't somebody to speak to you. Once one actually does speak to you, you'll react like a bomb has dropped on your head! You're a machine, you're programmed. The internet has made us distrust ourselves so much and made us become best friends with computers than fellow human beings. Your computer can give you directions to where you're going without asking for directions, get you a boyfriend/girlffriend, your ideal restaurant and even get you a job. On top of this it can help you to order medicines from the pharmacy and doctor to heal whatever illnesses you secretly surfer from. What's the need of having people around you? In case you need any type of contact, the computer will connect you to a local pet shop where you'll order for a dog, duck, bird and cat. While we are still at it, you can go to the nearest endoscopy and fertility clinic to have a baby. Everything done on the internet.

In their method of control against the spread of STDs and abortion, the Catholic Church has been busy campaigning against stem cells development, cloning and condoms -in the process denying many of us in Sub Saharan Africa that grew up in the late 90s the opportunity to indulge in the blessings of youth for fear of STDs and pregnancies-but the Vatican has not addressed the real dangers of ICT to this generation.
The world today is fighting its most important battle as a result of the collapse of the credit economy and financial institutions. The credit crunch happened because people in Europe and North America switched on their computers, saw figures that were calculated by computers believed them bought shares that were not existent. Invested in projects that never really existed and ended up being fleeced by unscrupulous banks and investment agencies. Most of the transactions that led to the collapse of the world's financial set up took place in the comfort of their homes. On their computers.

The collapse of the international economy which happened as a result of ICT access to people that did not deserve or misused it has not been condemned by the Vatican. The Vatican is concerned only with its dogma than the realities of a changing world. As a result of this crisis immigrants in South Africa, Europe, North America and Japan are denied a chance to access services and jobs. Some have even been killed as they're a threat to employment opportunities and other services.

But the fear is not only to immigrants, citizens of the western world are have given up their rights to finding partners with whom to share their time and good life to the internet. Cue e harmony.
Coming soon. e Harmony>>>>>>




dating in the west is done on the computer-it is very easy to find someone to have sexual intercourse with and the next day each party acts as strangers

Internet dating conference due in September in London