Anti-Social Networking
Author's Note: For irony’s sake, please share this poem on Facebook and Twitter
Super easy, super slick
Grab the mouse, double click
Broadband delivers double-quick
You can’t shoot the messenger.
Keyboard kids like me
Just before tea
Hungry for news
Feed
The reality smokescreen.
Log in for the latest
Trend, vlog, status
Comment on the greatest
As classmates update us
And strangers request us.
We laugh in the face of
email.
Using language you don’t know
Abbreviated laugh lmao
dw, but tbh cba bro
Smileys are great though :)
And this is a typo *
Super easy, super slick
Grab the mouse, double click
Wi-Fi delivers double-quick
You can’t shoot the messenger.
Office workers poke
Each other over lunch-
Legs up heads down
Thumbs out backs hunched.
Sandwich eating
Before a meeting
Illness treating
After excreting
Putting on the heating
I’ve been following you
And you’re always tweeting.
Super easy, super slick
Unlock the screen, touch to click
The Web delivers double-quick
You can’t shoot the messenger.
My online
Valentine
And I
Naturally met
Over the net
(You’ve got it right
It was love at first site)
We shared bittersweet
Twitter tweets
But wouldn’t know it
On the street.
Please confirm to delete.
Super easy, super slick
Grab the mouse, double click
Add another profile pic
You can reboot the messenger.
Plugged in. Charged up. Logged on. Drugged.
Lose yourself
Online.
You are secure
Online.
You are funny
Online.
You have friends
Online.
Plugged in. Charged up. Logged on. Drugged.
If we lose ourselves
Online
We will find
In time
Real life
Will
Slowly
Die.
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4 Comments – Postiwch sylw
SamuelPatterson
Rhoddwyd sylw 49 mis yn ôl - 7th May 2012 - 12:43pm
You sum up my feelings so wonderfully!
Dare I insert a smiley face now?
curlygirl
Rhoddwyd sylw 49 mis yn ôl - 7th May 2012 - 19:10pm
loved this good way of showing the topic
hisgirl210410
Rhoddwyd sylw 48 mis yn ôl - 14th May 2012 - 14:30pm
ooo i like this, amazing!
DanielleNicole15
Rhoddwyd sylw 47 mis yn ôl - 20th June 2012 - 12:15pm
Great poem! It's really effective in getting people to think about social networking!