Though we’re past the fluffiest day in the calendar, I have to share something I found to be so very refreshing and entertaining, I just couldn’t stop giggling. And it made me think of how crucial and premeditated creating a profile has become for some, how many sleepless nights they’d lose on finding the wittiest and sharpest conjunction in a phrase. And how their efforts are for nothing in the end. Maybe just for a virtual self esteem, as I hope the real one does not come from the www.
I like to call this affliction a technomiopia. Diagnosis is usually made during the first several profiles an individual is creating. If you notice them having difficulty looking away from the computer, answering the phone, going for a stroll or having a shower (!) we recommend a slap delicate approach as they might be over-sensitive.
You (who have the misfortune of being around such specimen) must bear in mind at all cost that it is not their fault. It is just a clear case of seeing reality more clearly when close to a monitor, while objects with no connection to a computer appear blurred or fuzzy. Reading and close-up work may be clear, but reality vision is blurry.
The severe cases require a refractive attitude surgery. It is a corrective procedure and it consists in cutting any access to laptops, desktops, iphones, ipads, blackberries for at least few hours a day. Slowly, the individual will learn to exercise the eye sight beyond screens and social profiles and in the happy cases will end up enjoying it.
britsandbits
brilliant! plastic is fantastic baby! and so is the virtual!