junkie (def) noun an enthusiastic follower; fan; devotee
True or False
I am a media junkie.
addict noun a person who is addicted to an activity, habit
addict verb to habituate or abandon (oneself) to something compulsively or obsessively
True or False?
I am addicted to the internet.
True or False
Michael Jackson was (potentially) addicted to drugs.
True or False
Michael Jackson's death was a tragedy.
True or False
I am a face book junkie.
True or False
A media junkie who is addicted to watching, participating, commenting and contributing to the internet is a tragedy.
I spent the weekend recovering from Media exhaustion. There were several days in the past 10 that I had my face book, twitter, cnn, msnbc or you tube windows opened simultaneously for part of most of the time I was on my computer, my blackberry, etc.
Does the immediacy of information keep you up...or bring you down? Or both.
I'm trying to figure it all out.
I'm exhilarated when early indications showed that Obama was gaining over McCain, when the stock market is up by 500 points, when a friend I haven't heard from in a while suddenly finds me on face book, or there's a surprise announcement of the awarding of a Nobel Prize.
But are those "highs" enough to compensate for the lows we feel when tragedy comes into our own home, the horror we digest with our morning coffee as we watched the protesters get beaten on the streets of Iran, the scenes of the limbs and bloodied bodies after the bombs in the market in Iraq, the disappointment of yet another politician confessing that their brain resides between their legs?
They say that it's cocktail hour somewhere in the world ... beam me up Scotty!
