as a preamble i am going to utter a shameless plug for the fantastic indie feature film "four eyed monsters" which you should be incredibly excited and grateful to find out is on youtube in its entirety (70 some minutes) until august fifteenth. i can’t speak highly of it enough. it left me very inspired and has started me on a project, the following of which is some kind of start to..and now without further adieu on with todays’ post
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I’ve always been passing messages, it started with little origami folded triangles in highschool..
So then we got to the motel and he said we were married, which I totally don’t know why she bought because it was so obvious that I was underage, and then we go in and he closes the door and gets out this bottle of wine. The room is in these terrible colours and the bed when I sit on it dips like a v in the middle.
And as I’ve always thought global, long distance relationships led the way to love letters and parcels, but I wanted to get more out of London, and current communication. It started with a pager
Compton’s later?… xxx l
Then I was one of the first of my friends to get a mobile
No sorry we’re not there anymore, we’ve moved on to.
Hey listen it was crowded but now we
Sorry I thought we were staying in Soho we’re walking to
Hey change of plan again
Its really loud here what did you say
I missed your call
We’re in the village… can you hear me??? The village
wait wait wait I’ll go outside
Sorry darling it was dead there now we
Then the internet gave me a new platform to communicate
kytttn: do you want me to take off my skirt
blueeyes: yes
kytttn: I’m unbuttoning your shirt now
And then there was texting
I WANT 2 KISS U NOW
Texting
JUST-4GET-ME
(Predictive) Texting
deeply envious that I missed the night, but I had too many things to get on with, hopefully we’ll find a way to meet up, because I can’t get the last few nights out of my head and… call you tomorrow xx s
Friendster
“Hey, can’t believe you’re on here, I had no idea that you were friends with Lynn, when were you in san Francisco?
“Oh my god, everyone is on here”
Friendster
oh..Sorry, I’m rarely on here anymore
blogging
Quite some time ago, maybe a couple years ago or more I was at a friend’s birthday in the downstairs bar of catch 22.
It had hit that terrible point when it becomes clear that many who had
promised to come had not shown up, and suddenly I lost my friend to a
barrage of bail out text messages. 
Women seem to take the whole no-show thing much much harder than men.
Somehow
it doesn’t matter how many people are there, the concern is always for
those who aren’t. What made this specific case of no-shows worse though
was the turn-out was particularly low. I did my best to deliver the it
doesn’t matter we’re here speech “Hey forget about x, I’m here and
um… she’s here and did I mention that I’m here???” But she was to
busy staring at the door hopefully for others to arrive. I finally gave
up as her phone started going again and I went downstairs…
Picture messaging
Here is the punk girl on the night bus stop
I loved that picture of the crazy woman on the street, but check this girl out
Your phone doesn’t get picture messages?
Myspace
I am NOT joining; it took me ages to build up my network on friendster
Myspace
So I’ve joined, Here is a long ranting list of every band, film, TV show, actress, political opinion I’vE ever had ever
Myspace
This is me at Peters party
This is me looking vaguely suggestive
This is the picture that only really looks like me five years ago, in the dark, with clothes I’d never wear again and too much make up.
Myspace
I only have like four friends because I don’t know where everyone is on here, and one of them is Tom
Lady miss kier is my “friend”
Bjork is my “friend”
Hackney is my “Friend”
Myspace
I can’t believe I found you again
I’m so glad you found me.
So what have you been up to since
Hey didn’t we meet at…
You know me from
Thanks for adding me
Do I even know you? Can you send me a message before trying to add me?
Myspace
I listened to your track, I was really into it
I’m loving your band
Cheers for turning me on to them, i can’t wait to see them live
They’re playing live! we have to see them! here’s the link, listen to the second track
Myspace
Sorry I’m not into random band requests
Sorry Myspace is experiencing a technical error
Sorry this error has been forwarded to myspace’s technical department
Sorry Myspace is undergoing routine maintenance.
Skype
What’s. …Skype…
Sorry I know you told me, but I can’t work out how to hook it up
I’m going to figure out how to set up Skype because I can’t deal with not being able to call you
I feel really shy talking and seeing myself talk at the same time
You look really cute in this little frame
I’ve just worked out how to enlarge the window
You’re full screen now baby, how does that feel???
The delay on the audio makes me feel feel dubbed dubbed
facebook
I am too old to join facebook
facebook
Do I really need another online social network?
Ok I’ve joined but I refuse to add a picture
Ok I’ve added a picture, but I’m just… checking this out
facebook
Sara has written on your wall
Sara wants you to answer your question
“Poke” her
“Smack” her
“Kiss “ her
You worked with her
You lived with her
You went to college
You hooked up
You were ninjas
Sara is in a relationship and it’s “complicated”
Sara is single
Gchat
(cue SCOTTISH VOICE OVER FROM big brother )
“2:06PM…Sara and Aubrey are instant chatting “
me: ok, so the problem with facebook, is when you do things like change your relationship status, it sends out a newsfeed, like a headline to all of your friends who then bombard you with messages…
2:08 PM Aubrey: are you serious!! that happens on Facebook? I will never ever sign up to that vortex of evil
2:09 PM me: yes, i think maybe you can set it up to do otherwise, but i’m not quite facebook saavy enough for that
i’m not doing well to talk you into it am i?
Aubrey: nope
2:10 PM me:ummm
its great because
you can….???
Aubrey: too late
me: poke people?
Aubrey: too late
me: look at their pictures?
share horoscopes?
keep track of all your mates in one place?
Aubrey: you’re really selling it
2:11 PM me: everyone’s doing it???
Aubrey: oh okay i’ll join up
me: i knew that would work in the end
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EPILOGUE
I’m putting off getting a blackberry as long as possible. I’ll let people think my diary is “quaint” if need be. But in all seriousness.. it’s a rare occasion where I’ve gotten home on this side of one. Ironically enough before coming home, i met up with a friend who i’ve only ever had a live conversation with once, in the two years since we’ve met. without this virtual world we inhabit, we would have just lost touch. but being back here, in my bedroom, at this hour, I’ve written this, and I know a frightening number of my friends right now are online, (and not all in foreign time zones)
As I sit here at my desk smoking, unable to sleep, having read all this back, I wonder something and I put it to you,
With all this social networking,
all these “friends”
are we really connecting… ?
accomplished 
