Mobile Socializing
Pic taken by Blackberry
Experts say the act of socializing is essential to our overall health and could make us live longer and better.
It Makes Us:
-Keep Active
-Go out and enjoy life
- Improve our brain health
Now, I assume that no one else knows the importance of socializing like our 5 friends above who were incessantly typing away on their blackberries 
and iphones 
at Iguana in Midtown while being waited on. Instead of verbally communicating to each other directly, it was more entertaining to read each others thoughts on their phones while rambunctiously immersing themselves in haughty laughs over mere simplicity. But were our friends just working on improving their brain health by socializing, but not with each other?
A curious air filled both the restaurant and cyberspace as “mutual friends” questioned the abnormal behavior and waiters looked on with perplexed expressions. The waiters were good sports but were scared to approach the party of 5 because they thought they would only order through the mobile medium.
Some phenomenon had strictly occupied the amigos thus distracting themselves from each other. So who was it? Who could it be? What was so important that these 5 individuals who have been friends since college couldn’t cease to indulge themselves in the 3rd screen? If the phrase “mutual friends “ didn’t give it away then it is the one and only Facebook!
These days we are so obsessed with Facebook that we take it everywhere we go thanks to smartphones like the iphone and Blackberry. There is no doubt that Facebook has become a part of our lives but spirals out of control when friends refrain from talking to each other in person but instead do so through status updates. Yes, it was all in good fun but only Facebook can foster such an experience that one will be mad NOT to blog about it!
Just like the mobile, it is intimate. Through our photos, videos and status messages, we are defined in the digital world.
“In the eyes of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, humans exist first then they are identified through their essence. I say today we are defined by our Facebook status.”
