when i set foot on another country, i've learned my lessons in not logging unto facebook or i'll be saddled by skyrocketting phone bills and cause and hasten a myocardial infarction. that's the only time i do de-tech, during a few days backpacking pilgrimage. the internet with yahoo and google has been a tremendous innovation, helped us become less bored with proceedings. in 2003, before the era of smartphones, i was walking along Oxford town center with a colleague while she kept on looking and tinkering at her mobile phone. was she reading old texts? or she was so enamored with her phone, she forgot she had company? these days, i see fellow guests trawling the web at weddings, parties, dinners, not joining the humdrum conversations. are we all disinterested with real time day to day discourses? small talks anyone? petrified with the lulls?we seldom de-tech, we are surrounded by gadgets at all times. we check facebook on holiday. we read celebrity tweets. we watch viral videos on you tube. we google. i google a lot. i consult wikipedia for trivial names, concepts, filmographies. it's all reading and imbibing. we can use our devices, even in the presence of others, just not to the point of rudeness.
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