The Digital Immortals

Social media has brought about an age where everyone now has a monument to themselves, a digital monument, but a monument none the less. Everyone comments on world events as if they were a spokesperson, everyone wants to showcase themselves, they want us all to see how interesting they are and what fantastic lives they have. This approach to live has really instilled in people a cinematic frame of mind. They seem themselves as moving through a movie. In fact Facebook now has an option to make a movie out of your posted content. There is literally no event no matter how mundane that is not documented. The best part is instead of having the intended of effect of making everyone's life seem awesome the complete opposite has happened and now no one is impressed by anything because we can all see its fa facade mostly because its one we all put on ourselves. Just think about your grandparents. Remember how interesting it was to see photographs from when they were young? There weren't many of them and it was a glimpse into a long gone age, but now people take several photos a day. Our grand kids aren't going to give a shit and I don't blame, but of course by that time I'm sure everyone will have their own 24 hour channel. We will leave very detailed records of our lives that will exist long after we're gone, well at least as long as the digital information network holds up. Our facebook pages will out live us and if you gave someone the password you could probably keep up the facade of being alive for a quite a long while. Eventually facebook will add death as an event on your timeline. Most of the younger people will probably attend your funeral via skype. The sounds of the various other things they're doing on their computers will drown out the eulogy, but no one will notice because they'll all be creating posts about how much they miss you.