This whole idea has changed since the internet. Let me ask you, is there ever a day when you think you will get rid of your facebook account? Think about it. Is there a point when you'll close it down, turn it off? Maybe we'll use it less and less as we get older, but maybe we're a new generation that will keep it up. Now think... one day, we will have had our facebook accounts for years. Five years. Ten years. Twenty years. And the internet will have frozen pictures of us and our friends in progression for the past twenty years. When will we shut them down? Will our kids log onto our accounts and see these progressive photo albums of our teenage and adult lives?
I'm just curious. Goodnight.
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In response specifically to your question about the internet and facebook in particular - I don't know that people should shut down such sites.
Picture albums were replaced by scrapbooking; Diaries are slowly being replaced by blogs; letters are being replaced by email.
Just in the past couple of weeks, major newspapers have announced plans to move completely into the digital age - no more paper. Whether we want to admit it or not, I think we have to accept the fact that this is how things will now be.
Now, as far as the end of Star Wars is concerned - IT WILL NEVER END! We need to know how Han and Leia's grandchildren will preserve the Republic...
I often wonder if there will be a day when McDonald's ceases to exist. I mean, it can't go on forever, can it? And that brings me to the idea of our whole society as it is ceasing to exist. Maybe one thing at a time; maybe one fell swoop. I'm not talking about when Christ returns. I'm talking about if Christ should linger for thousands of years. Will everything change? Will our country and our world become so altered that you and I wouldn't recognize it, like in some movie where the character goes to the future and the future is some wiped-out post-Apocalypse kind of place. Sometimes I think about that.
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