All About Hangups

I came across an interesting blogger who said that she hates online communities and social network sites. It brought me to my yesterdays satsang about how we have rejected a few things in life since they seem like interference in our 'space'!
I was explaining about how people lived in olden times without any electricity and had no form of entertainment except gossip,make babies,sleep and eat after sundown.
Whereas today people come home so late from their work place. Like this girl landed home from her job at Tesco at 11pm. There is electrical power, Internet, cellphones and all the newer things to keep us occupied today.
There were only a few radio stations and we looked forward to the Wednesday night at 8pm for Binaca Geet Mala on Radio Ceylon.Nowadays you can check out videos and so many forms of radio stations and television stations that it is impossible to keep track.
We loved to go to hill stations and pilgrimages but now there are conducted tours to exotic locations with a lot of stuff thrown in.
We stood in queues to book our railway tickets and now we do Internet bookings.
All the above are conveniences offered to us in our changing environment.
We learn to adapt to all such changes and those who do not are left behind. Take the case of the bloggers who write a tonne of material today and reach out to never ending audiences but earlier to get published was a very great thing. Today it is push button publishing.
There are social networking websites which offer a newer ways of connections, reviving old friendships, keeping in touch in a very different ways. Sure we got over pen friendship days but now it is time for websites which help us connect. There were days when we had to stand for hours to connect to distant places on phone but now you can do video talk with the furthermost person too.
Can we dump the newer ways and crib constantly about it or should we just move on with the changes and learn to adapt to the changing scenario?
Let us move with the age otherwise why not go and sit in the Himalayas or the Antarctica?

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