Grid Therapy

After taking two days to clean out just ONE of my email accounts of superfluous emails, I am no longer in denial that I am in need of some very deep Grid Therapy. If you are wondering about what I mean when I say Grid, it's all the technological networks of communication entwined into a huge oversensory web. I am talking about messengers, emails, text messages, social networks, voicemails, blogs, and now even microblogs. All the different technological ways of staying in touch. And yes I do know that I am blogging about this....and that in itself should prove the need for Grid Therapy.
It all started innocently enough. The internet and ISP with their email accounts started my path of convenient communication. Then I started doing mass emails about me because I realized that it was taking too much of my time to tell the same "what's going on with me now" story to each individual person. And someone brilliant came up with blog sites!! Yes, I have been blogging before blogging actually became an official activity. But communication technology was not slowing down and then came instant messengers (AIM, Yahoo, and etc.). Now I could actually have an immediate virtual conversation with someone miles away through the computer. But let's not forget the cell phone communication growth...During this time, text messages were slowly coming on the scene and when it became fully integrated I was already in the audience front and center.
Then I moved 5K miles away...That's when I became totally devoted to the Grid. It was my way of keeping in touch and in the loop as much as I can with my loved ones. I think it was the main reason why I didn't feel so far away and it stayed any homesickness. Then Facebook and MySpace came on the scene!! Oh my... it was like blogging and messengers all wrapped up in such a fantastic convenient package. You could put pictures up and message each other and get in touch with people that you lost contact with but always wondered "where are they now?" It was great! Then of course other sites came along....classmates.com, reunion.com, bebo, etc..And yes I was either invited to join or joined because I thought it would help me connect with all those "lost" souls I had lost contact with. Yes, the internet kept my social networking life a flurry for a couple of years...
Then came the PDA's where I could take the internet and my social network with me everywhere I went. It started small with just the messengers at first. Then came Facebook and MySpace on mobile. And now even Skype is mobile (for my international friends and family). I can even update Twitter and Facebook all at the same time with the same update!! However, I have done some research and possibly found a site that can combine about 15 social networking sites so all of them are updated all at once!! Oh wow, wouldn't that be grand!!

Then maybe I can find time to pay attention to the people that are physically around me and not just virtually ; - P