Am I really connected?

Regular usage of status messages in Facebook and Twitter certainly has a disadvantage. It forced me to think and put forth my thoughts with a limit in no. of words. Over a period of time, I feel, if I continue to post status messages alone, there'll always be shrinkage of thoughts. At the same time, with blogs, only your thoughts and your vocabulary skills are the limits of writing. Apart from this, I experience certain other syndromes as well.

However close a friend is, I don't feel like calling them and talk to them in person or over the phone, after I got addicted to these social networking sites. For birthdays, marriages, wedding anniversaries and such special occasions, I just drop a wish in their walls and nothing else. Even if they are online, I don't feel like pinging and chat with them for a few minutes. What sort of a syndrome is this? Am I missing the real concept of connecting with people? Many times, the feeling that I am connected with so many friends is just not real. It gets into this level than the actual concept of being connected; like I am fighting with my own ego looking at their profiles, looking at their pictures...a looser telling himself..."Hey look, he has gone to that new place, so cool his life is, when are you gonna go there", "Look he has got an awesome car/bike, are you gonna buy something better than his, so that you can be a show stopper for a day", "Wow man, look at his babe, she is damn good looking"...well, yeah, if you think that I am a big time pervert, yes I am, but these days most of us are definitely using the facebook, pardon me, not 'the facebook', just facebook, as a tool to brag about ourselves. And definitely I am also part of that crowd. It got into a level where, while watching a movie or reading a book, I am talking to myself, "what better ways, I can put a view of myself about this book/movie in facebook so that I get more likes and comments in my status" rather than actually enjoying the movie or book. I am trying to refrain myself from giving reviews about a movie or a book. While writing this, I cannot avoid this thought that all I say is pessimism at hyper levels. Yeah, certainly positive sides are there, won't you be relieved if a friend whose thoughts are similar to yours' prevents you from going to a crap movie just by his status message, but the thought I want to estabilish is, it should not get into the level of one person boasting about himself. It should only be a suggestion, a mere suggestion, that's what I am trying to say.

Ok, forget all these, they are some random thoughts, I don't really know how many of us get these feelings. May be my ego is the only looser when it comes to social networking and it sits all alone there. I think, I have deviated a little too much than what I was trying to say. The reason I took to blogging itself was because of a strange suggestion from my friend. I was writing only short verses in Tamil, to begin with. One of my friends read that and suggested me that the thoughts I expressed in the verses are good enough that I should be writing them as short stories at least. So to get into a practice of long write-up, I tried blogging. Now that Megamind and I have an agreement that we should write at least a post a day and that too it should not be less than 300 words, I found myself in a difficult position as to what I have to write in my very second post itself, all because of this shrinkage in thoughts.