It seems like a new country and everyone wants to flock to it except me.  I like to call it the Republic of  Facebook.  Have you ever wondered about a person or a site that asks you to "like it?"  Where are the psychiatrists when we need them?

Granted, we all have a choice and I choose not to tenet on their sphere.  While it may serve some purpose for a few, it seems that sites like this while claiming to bring people together who might otherwise stay in some kind of "lonely" state actually begin to detach them from reality and they enter the strange world of the digital where things are generally not what they appear to be. 

What is to be said about people who post their entire lives and even current activities online, and do not even know who the people living next door to them are?  Are there instances of "facebooking"  (or similar sites) helping them to open up to the reality in which they find themselves?  Possibly!

One good thing about these kind of sites may be that people may actually create a journal of sorts and hopefully they will have the knowledge of looking at what they have written from time to time and then coming to some kind of conclusion about themselves.  They may even begin to like themselves or if not they may have the courage to interact with real people and get the help they need.

I am simply amazed at how so many join these sites and use them as their primary means of communication.  The interesting thing is that many of these "communications" are done from their  --what----?  Oh yes, their phone, which I always thought had the prmary purpose of letting you actually talk to another person in real time.

Perhaps those who predict that some day the world will be taken over by robots and all humans will be unnecessary and terminated.  Maybe it has begun.