Time moves fast. We all know it. For those of us who are rearing our own young ones, we understand that time just moves too fast. Looking back at our childhood albums, brown and tarnished, we realized how life was simpler then, how growing-up seemed to take forever.
The world now is a multimedia escapade. There are so many things vying for our time and attention that multi-tasking is an absolute must if we want to keep up. Aside from all the worldly distractions, there’s also the factor of distance. Friends and family are spread throughout the world now. Keeping touch, as much as it increasingly is becoming easier with a myriad of communication options, is also posing its own challenges on today’s generation.
The apprehension is that our two kids will grow up fast, too fast. The unease is that, with everything around so fast-paced and with everyone not staying put, we – parents, family and friends – will wake up and find Rakesh and Kareena already in their teenage years.
We shudder at that thought.
So we digitize life. We create real-time snippets of our lives. We don’t want to just have an album that we – parents, family and friends – would look at years later all brown and tarnished; displaying pictures and words of times past. We want these web pages to be a DVR, pausing and rewinding not live TV but real lives.
So go ahead. Let’s immerse ourselves in the world of social networks and social media: Facebook; Google Plus; Bebo; PerfSpot; YouTube; Metacafe; DailyMotion; Flickr; Photobucket; Picasa; SmugMug; WordPress; Blogger; Posterous; Tumblr; Squidoo; Twitter; Plurk; Hi5; Or the other hundreds of options out there.
See you in the cloud.
