What is it about computers? is it the time we spend using it, or the people we meet online, or the great new program that changes our screensaver and makes the virtual cows go up and down and left and right and every which way? It’s not that we’re selfish: we love sharing interesting and funny new videos, pictures, and songs we find online to anyone within reach.

So, why can’t we let go of our keyboard to a new set of fingers? have our computers become our digital mistress? i think in a lot of ways, yes. We tell it our utmost secrets, share with it our most kept sexual desires, thoughts, wishes, plans. Since the internet, computers have become something more to their owners. They’re no longer just another piece of technology to us, they’re our home away from home; our sanctuary.

Interesting thought, isn’t it? It’s almost as though we’ve built an imaginary digital relationship with an inanimate object; why this is shocking, I’m not sure, people do it all the time. Teenagers back in the day did it with cell phones, today they still do it, but, have now expanded to new online forums. In today’s techno-age, teenagers no longer fight for the phone line (unless you have dial-up, in which case, I’m so so sorry) no-no-no, today they fight for computer time. So, now, mom and dad have to share w/ the kids. How a one computer household could manage this, well, i don’t ever want to find out.

Oh, wait… I do know. My sibling :(. Well, at least i know I’m not the only one out there who feels this way. I think we should all hug our computers, not literally, we’d get the screens all oily and damage our LCDs, but, be kind to your computers. Buy them things, upgrade them, if you have a laptop, take it to the park with you. Blog out in the shade while sitting on a bench (if you live in new york or any dangerous city, you might wanna forego this part). And keep your computer clean, you wouldn’t want your mate to be dirty, would you… ok, bad example… but, come on, be good to your mistress, she’ll thank you for it by shining brightly and working hard at your command. Oh, yeah, right there… yeah, stroke those keys… ooh, yes, I like that… <sighs> sorry, got carried away there..

Well, that was my thought for the moment. What’s yours?