Pardon my absence the last few days, but it's a little hard to function, let alone write a blog after spending a weekend with your soon-to-be married best friend and 11 other girls. While I was in Miami having the best weekend ever, I made an observation that I felt I needed to share.
It all started at 8:00 AM friday morning. As we boarded the airplane a stewardist welcomed us aboard with a shining smile and a hairdo that screamed "Help! I'm stuck in 1980." She then gave us a little ticket with instructions on how to use the aircraft's free Wi-Fi. Wi-fi on an airplane? When did this happen? Did I miss something? Whether I'm out of the loop or not, I thought to myself, "this is a disaster waiting to happen."
After taking off and cruising at a safe altitude of 11,000 ft the captain announced that we were welcome to go ahead and wi-fi our little hearts out. Personally, I find no reason to bring my laptop with me when I take a vacation, especially to Miami. However, that didn't stop the rest of the plane from lighting up, literally, the backlights of the computer started to shine from all over the plane. And to my amusement, guess what people where doing on their computer as they were flying. That's right, they were stalking.
As I checked out the 4 row radius from my aisle seat, I noticed that more than half the passengers who were on their computers were dilly-dallying on Facebook! I guess I shouldn't have been surprised, I mean what else would you be doing on a 2 hour flight to Miami at 8:00 AM? We can't bring something as simple as face moisturizer (it's very important, I get very dry skin when I fly) on the plane, but we can now access a 400,000,000 person social network? That's definitely not dangerous at all.
When you take a vacation somewhere isn't the point to get away? Get away from the mundane routine of Monday-Friday, the cold weather, and everything else that drags you down in the winter. If you really want to get away, don't stay connected with Facebook.
p.s. I'm adding two must have songs to the weekend's play list:
Memories by David Guetta ft Kid Cudi
Daylight by Matt and Kim
