The scourge of modern life

Some guy was talking about Facebook, and whether it was good or bad, on the radio last night and it really got me thinking not just about Facebook but the internet and technology and everything else associated with our modern times.
I tried to imagine how life would be if there was some disaster that fried all electronics on earth and left us back in the iron age.
At first I smiled thinking how OTHER people would suffer thinking that I wasn't really going to be touched too much...but after a while I came to the shocking conclusion that it would in fact change even my life drastically.
I'd probably oversleep because my cellphone alarm doesn't work anymore but hey I couldn't get fired because my work would be non-existent since the company I work for is defendant on two of SA's cellphone service providers.
But now I'd have to worry about how to get money to spoil the girlfriend that didn't dump me because she didn't catch me flirting with other women on Facebook since the internet doesn't exist anymore and neither does my laptop or high speed broadband wireless modem work anymore...

EISH!!!

To think just a couple of years back you'd call a buddy's house and if he wasn't there it was no real big problem because no one is going to sit around the phone the whole day waiting for a friend to make arrangements for a joll and you realized that.
Now you can go where you want when you want because you've got a mobile phone in your pocket (if you don't then get out from under the rock you've been living under).
Suddenly when you call your buddy and can't get hold of him it feels as if the world is going to end because "the whole bloody reason someone invented a mobile phone is so that you can be reachable 24/7!!!!"
No more wishing you've taken your 2kg camera along when you see a lovely sight because your cellphone has a digital camera (if you don't then get out from under the rock you've been living under).

No more snailmail, email has taken over and mailing a friend halfway around the globe and receiving a reply back in minutes is nothing strange.
Any kind of information is right at your fingertips and it's getting cheaper and faster by the day almost, but at the same time porn and other things are also available to anyone that looks in the right places.

So yes, just like everything else there is two sides to the story...