Blog about not blogging

Just in case you were all wondering why Ashley is the only one to post anything on OUR blog, let me explain. I (Bryan) am against blogging, and for that matter against I Pods and the majority of technology that makes us all less social.

I am also against facebook in case you didn't know (yes I know I have a facebook account) facebook is just an excuse to not ACTUALLY communicate. We use it to keep in touch with people that in reality haven't been important enough to really keep in touch with. We look into their lives to check in but if we really cared about these people wouldn't we in fact have never fallen out of touch? There are the occasional exceptions, but my guess is the majority of them are the ones not really worth keeping in touch with. I have hundreds of friends on facebook, but i only have about 30 numbers in my telephone.

Now for I Pods, this will make most sense to those of us who have recently graduated college or are in college. You see I walk from class to class and people constantly run right into me as if I were not there. They are paying so much attention to whatever racket they are listening to that everyone else becomes invisible. I wonder how many people have missed out on their next date because of this horrible little machine. I hate the I pod and it has begun to erode our communicative skills in the very least on BYU's campus.

How could I possibly hate blogs? And, yes I am aware of the irony here, in blogging about hating blogs, which in reality is the only reason I decided to begin to write on this blog, that seems to suck my wife away for a couple hours a month. It is nice to see pictures of family and friends and "hear" about what is new in their lives but I am convinced that we should pick up the dang phone or write a dang email. For crying out loud how busy are we that we created this bulletin board so that we no longer have to actually communicate? Thus the reason I hate blogs and I pods and facebook. The hate list could certainly be longer but I don't have time for that today.

I thought since I was writing I should do something productive so I am taking votes on what I should be for Halloween I have narrowed it down to Tobias Funke in never-nude attire or Buddy the Elf let me know.