Live Your Life Be Free!

I sometimes wonder what would happen if the human race was wiped out but the Internet was left in tact. If another lifeform  accessed our Internet… I wonder what they would think on a number of levels. In fact, so many levels that it is too big to talk about in one post. The internet, the human race’s only legacy… a chilling thought!

But, one thing in particular… if they looked at our social networking sites, how would they think we lived? My brother loathes MySpace, because he sees people uploading their favorite logos and songs and thinks that that is not a real reflection of who they are. I mean, isn’t a person defined by their character and their actions… not by the brands and songs they love?

I discovered Facebook not long ago, and have since reunited with all kinds of people that I haven’t connected with since forever. It is in general a fun little site, but when I look at the required fields to fill in, I wonder if these are the right things to reintroduce myself to my old friends with: favorite movies, favorite TV shows, favorite books etc. What about who I am and what I think?

I mean, most of my friends don’t share the same favorites as me (for example, I have been dating Mac-lovers lately ) but they do share some of the same values and ideas. So, as the lifeforms look at the fact that people like Grindhouse or Gilmour Girls, I think they are getting a very limited picture of the depth in people.