Idiots, Lunatics and your Next Door Neighbor

What do they all have in common? Sadly, they are becoming synonyms and when viewed in a much larger perspective they correlate perfectly. Need proof? Spend ten minutes on a very popular social networking site and pay attention to the absolute bullshit that people post in the "what are you doing now" section. First question, who cares that you are waiting to watch Lost? Second, don't you feel "Lost"? Third, don't you feel like an idiot when you take the time to sit down at a computer, log in to the site and type what you are doing in a six inch box at the top of the page. Some great examples of what people are doing now: waiting for work to end, enjoying the weather, finishing dinner and about to start baths for the kids. Someone actually stopped in the middle of the chaos that is after dinner / before bed and decided to post what they were doing. That is a blatant advertisement that you are ignoring your kids for the two and a half hours you actually get
to see them in a day in order to tell all your "friends" what you are doing. A person whom I believed to be of reasonable intelligence just posted that they had fun "fellowshipping" with their friends. Seriously? This person is 38 and just used the word "fellowshipping" as a verb. We are witnessing the audacity of stupidity.