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Podionaut When Computer Life clashes with Real Life
Post posted by Sacha on May 13th, 2009 at 15:37
How many followers do you have? If you know the answer, you are either a religious figure or you have a twitter account. I count myself in the latter group, with very little followers. That’s fine with me, because although I would love many people to read about what brilliant things I’m tweeting, I have no idea how to keep track of everything everybody else is saying! Just let me say my piece and let me think my piece reaches all over the world, and let me be happy with the relish even though it doesn’t approach reality. The same with this blog, actually.
This weekend I had my first Real Life Follower. I must admit that being followed in Real Life has its advantages. There’s no way a person can pose as another person so I could see what ASL my follower had. This follower’s age was quite old, its sex was male, and the location was quite obvious, I take. The follower followed me into every store I went. He even stood by my side while I was shopping for tampons, which was quite nice of him. He must know how women hate to shop for those things alone (you know I’m being cynical here, right).
I know, this new age is all about information. Everybody can know just about anything about everybody at any moment in time and we have the power to let everybody know that info. But I’m not all that used to being broadcasted all day long, let alone having somebody follow my every move. It scared me, because I could not turn off the program nor could I make myself Invisible (a great feature on ICQ. Whatever happened to ICQ, I wonder). In short, I wanted to Escape. ESC ESC ESC.
After having visited – and being followed in – 5 stores, I finally logged on to the supermarket. Of course, my follower found his way into the program as well. Nimble as I am, I quickly threw down my shopping cart and logged out fast. Because of his older software, he was stuck inside, stuck behind the security gates he had just passed. And I was out. I had managed to block my first Real Life Follower.
Did you notice the transition? I suddenly went all computery. Okay, let me reverse that with this awesome video of Real Life Twitter.
And while we’re on the subject of Info on the internet… why can’t I find any information about that foggy mirror eye halo oddity? I want to know why I see two scary discs in the places of my eyes when I look in my mirror when it’s fogged up. Or am I the only one who sees those things…? It looks very creepy and ghosty. So I guess that, after being Followed in Real Life, I am now being Haunted through my Foggy Mirror. Man, this world is getting crazier by the day.
