Life Lessons with Angela

I'd like to think that as a society, we are blessed with such advanced technology (given that we have access to it) that makes life a little easier to live. We have devices that washes our dishes for us; we have devices that allows us to communicate with loved one halfway across the world; we have devices that tells everyone exactly where you are and what you are doing. We also have the Internet, the vast electronic world chalked filled with endless creative possibilities where people like to air out dirty laundry and excruciatingly share every single piece of mundane information about their personal lives. Hey, I'm guilty of such claims so I have no place to judge. I'm typing out my thoughts on a blog, for cryin' out loud. The issue I cannot seem to wrap my head around lies within the means of how people go about handling their love lives on the Internet.

Now. When you read that last sentence, it just sounds plain silly. Why would anyone in their right mind think it is okay, appropriate even, to broadcast such emotionally-charged words onto a public forum that THE ENTIRE WORLD CAN SEE? Now, I am not saying that it is morally inappropriate for these people to do such things, I'm saying that it is inappropriate in the sense that frankly, no one really wants to see it, and no one cares. The part where people pay attention comes in when people continue to bombard these social media sites with such contrived "interactions" of "feelings" for one another, when in reality it's a front for the relationship's insecurities that attempt to mask the crumbling of their coupledom. I never really understood why people felt so compelled to let the world know that they are dating/marrying someone through an electronic outlet (the ever shudder-inducing "Facebook Official" makes me want to gouge out my eyeballs). I understand that people want to let their loved ones know the great news. But is it really necessary to post every picture, every fleeting sentiment, every saccharine-sickening comment where everyone can see? Isn't that just inviting the world to catch a peek (for some, catching a live show) on something that should be private, sacred? Isn't this just setting yourself up for embarrassment when you have to somehow erase these things from forums and people's memories when you break up?

I admit, these past several months have transformed any rainbows-in-the-sky hopes and emotions I may have had into concrete gargoyles of logical thinking; the very idea of romance and happily-ever-afters mean nothing to me now. I actually think it's bullshit. But I have learned that human relationships are precious, and they are meant to be private between the two people who are in it together. They are not meant to be on display in an electronic fishbowl of scrutiny where everyone knows when you have broken up with someone and then gotten back together with them by the change in their Facebook status.

Maybe I'm just being insensitive. Or maybe people are just that dumb.