First off, Merry Christmas to you. :)  

But this post isn’t about the holidays where people are rushing to buy gifts nor is it a scrooge post saying how Christmas makes us melancholy.  Nope.  This post is about how prevalent the web is in our lives that some of us, present company not excluded, are spending some precious time online during the eve where we should be spending it with family.

One family in our clan tonight had to rush home to Skype with a family member from abroad.  Of course this is still time spent with other family, albeit through a screen.  Even my mother recently joined Facebook, I caught her changing her profile picture while preparing dinner.  We are not absolved from this either, upon coming home, we automatically sit down in front of our PCs and “facebook” to check photos of the parties we’ve missed tonight.  Yup, gone are the days where you have to wait for the line at the local photo store to have your film developed. Gone are the times where we pass around sheets of pictures and make remarks… now we just comment on a photo posted on facebook or flickr. You even see a friend logged in facebook and start chatting, sending Christmas cheer. 

Blogging, twitting, plurking is no exception.. I am doing it now.  Has it improved communication between families and friends? Or has it replaced valuable face time with virtual time?

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