I Am So Sick Of "Social"
I have come to *loathe* the word social.
It has lost all meaning. Everything is friggin' social. Social meeedia they say.
Why not just be done with it and call email "social messaging" and instant messaging "instant socializing". How about "social walking" for when you walk down the street and say hello to people. "Social eating", for when you take a friend out to eat and are nice to the waiter. "Social sleeping", for when you go to bed with your wife or significant other, or, well with whoever. How about "social peeing", for when you (guys) go into a public bathroom and there is someone at the next urinal.
We use the term as though we are just so amazed that we can use the computer to actually *communicate* with people and/or share experiences. Well knock me over with a darned feather.
I like the cut of this guy's jib. The name of his blog is Why does everything suck?
I wonder if he was online in the 1980s and saw CompuServe's CB Simulator? The Suits over there initially wanted to kill the very idea of it. They were unconvinced that people would chat by typing on their keyboards.
Which is why CompuServe has gone to a very deserved and wholly unlamented bye-bye.
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