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There's been a lot of talk lately about going beyond the virtual and committing ourselves more substantially as PhilWeaver members. Many including myself find email groups, P2P messengers, chat rooms even text messages inadequate, impersonal and unreal. But to be quite honest there's a lot about real life that people wish were more like the virtual one.
How many times have you tipped over a drink and an instant before the glass shatters on the floor wish that you could "undo" this action on your history panel in Photoshop? How often do you wish you could do multi-tasking like you do on Windows XP with several applications in your life, like taking a vacation and working for a living, all going on at the same time? Don't you wish you could do a grammar check on all the words you say on Office Word before you blurt them out and embarrass yourself? If only more of life was free on Kazaa like money and cars. If only our skills with Flash or JavaScript could pay for our taxes or get us hot dates.
Not everyone we want to see in person. Some we keep at a distance with aliases on chat rooms, others we only wish to communicate with through text messages. The more personal the technology the more we reveal about ourselves. Trust a little more then a web cam might do. Go a little further and you just might eyeball the person.
If only we were our websites. It's one thing to make your homepage look like a million bucks; it's another thing to look the part yourself. With your website you could be the dashing techno babe magnet playboy, the cute anime-eyed girl or the deadly enigmatic goth rocker. The fact is that if and when we meet we will be found out to be another brown skinned web geek with all the mundane concerns of living in the third world. So what if you ain't a bad-ass mac-daddy gangsta with the honeyz and the bling-bling? I say that's a great thing! The realization that there are no rock stars among us just might make the shy less intimidated. "It's so lonely when you're getting to know yourself" The Red Hot Chili Peppers Anthony Keidis couldn't be more wrong. What do those funky heroin addicts from L.A. know about Pinoy E.B.s anyway? I say you only get to know yourself when you are exposed to other people. Pretense is poison. Getting real is liberating. Shyness is its own prison. Show yourself. People will probably like you for it.
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