I have been finding the New York Times really funny lately. I know that it caters to a certain audience, but the recent article on bilingual nannies just struck me as very "look at my rich, white problems" in a really disgusting way! Oh - it's so hard to find good help these days even though our country is in a terrible recession. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/nyregion/19bilingual.html
Maybe I'm just exaggerating here, but I feel like reality tv, lifestreaming, the new proliferation of media is providing us with relationships that help replace the actual fractured relationships in our real lives. Example: I joke that my best friend is Adam Carolla. I listen to his podcast Monday through Friday. It's between an hour and an hour and a half per episode. So that's between 5 and 7.5 hours of quality time we have together each week. As a single woman with lots of close friends but no best friend, that is probably more time than I spend with any other person in my life in the course of an average week. I think reality tv can do the same thing. Keeping up with the Kardashians can take the place of keeping up with your real friends. Keeping in touch with people on Twitter or Facebook, creating a persona there, can be a way to not worry about your "real" life.
Again, this could just be crazy Saturday morning ranting from me, but thanks for giving me a forum to vent :)
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Date: 2010-08-21 04:59 pm (UTC)http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/nyregion/19bilingual.html
Maybe I'm just exaggerating here, but I feel like reality tv, lifestreaming, the new proliferation of media is providing us with relationships that help replace the actual fractured relationships in our real lives. Example: I joke that my best friend is Adam Carolla. I listen to his podcast Monday through Friday. It's between an hour and an hour and a half per episode. So that's between 5 and 7.5 hours of quality time we have together each week. As a single woman with lots of close friends but no best friend, that is probably more time than I spend with any other person in my life in the course of an average week. I think reality tv can do the same thing. Keeping up with the Kardashians can take the place of keeping up with your real friends. Keeping in touch with people on Twitter or Facebook, creating a persona there, can be a way to not worry about your "real" life.
Again, this could just be crazy Saturday morning ranting from me, but thanks for giving me a forum to vent :)