The Connected World

The modern connected world is ridiculous. I work in it, and I love it, but still it’s ridiculous.

I’m sitting here online at my PC, with my iPhone beside me.

Han and Rob are on MSN. I start talking to Han, and it’s somebody else, so instead I start texting her.
Then she is there, and replies to the text I just sent via MSN.
I have Firefox open on Facebook, and somebody adds a comment to a status. It flags it up on Facebook, my iPhone ‘bongs’ because it’s just received the email telling me that the comment has been made, and soon enough Outlook will do the same because it’s connected to the same email account.

I can either refresh the page, click the notification, go to the email, or go to Facebook on my iPhone, all to see this update.

Then Han makes a comment on a photo on Facebook, all the bongs happen to tell me, I see it, then discuss it with her on MSN, rather than Facebook.

Whilst it’s great that we can all get information in so many ways these days (granted, Facebook is hardly mission critical), it’s all a bit ridiculous isn’t it?