Social Nightmare

What if there was a social networking site that was set to broadcast our relationships? Not with our friends or family members, but with our girlfriends, our husbands, our most private lives publicly spewed for the world to see. Imagine this site as a way for the world to better learn the inter workings of relationships; what's been working, and what hasn't been; whether you're problem is yours only, or if there are others with experience to share. A site where daily thoughts aren't "Going shopping with the girls, getting tans at 5 and then Club Domingo all night loooonnng!!!", but more like "We talked about it, for the first time we shared our differences and it really worked".

Is there cause for concern? The beauty behind this is that as this site grows it becomes a database of relationships; a collection of years of experience in problem solving, sharing lives, escaping without leaving, sex, lies and video tapes. But your question is, why would people want to join this? What would I get out of this if my boyfriend knew that I was talking about how he cries during scary movies? Anonymity is the response I can give you, as a user you'll be prompted to enter a username (like AOL 3.0 yay!) or to display your full name (think about the clinical psychologist, sex doctors and gynochologists that would love to advertise their ideas); so you can stay anonymous or you can be up front about who you are. The point isn't to create a steamy site of pornographic material, but to create a massive relationship management site where couples of all types, creeds and styles can come together to share experiences, thoughts or just to browse content.

Think about it America. If you can share daily life on facebook, twitter, myspace or any other social networking site, why cant you share your daily life... just the intimate side?

Upkeep

You'd think that I would have the time to at least post something every month, clearly I (and you) were very wrong. Today, of all days, I feel the need to express my confusion on the subject of "the 80's/90's are coming back"...

I foresaw a problem when Alien Ant Farm first did a cover for Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal", smoothly casting the spell over audiences as Michael released a new album "for the fans". Fast forward a couple year and we have the birth and rise of now pop mega-icon, Kanye West. The theme "a child of the 80's" has been streamlined as of late and we're seeing a distorted agenda from both the youth and the matured. Stars of all shapes and sizes are bringing back to life what this generation has only heard about. Is it so bad though? During the 80's and early 90's, fashion and media were outrageously outrageous. MC Hammer pants and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live vicariously though us. Please, if you can, take a stab at some of the old programs that we used to watch as children...don't make me name them as I've been having nightmares of hairish creatures with sideways pony tails and 8-bit movie soundtracks pulsating through the right side of my brain.

Is if fair to let this generation re-live the 80's and 90's? Well we have the second war in Iraq (the first one was in the early 90's), we're bringing back the colors "hot pink, hot green, hot orange, and any other deviation of 'hot' and 'color'" and, as always, we're remaking every single movie or tv show from this time. This is my problem. Have we ultimately run out of creativity? Have we succumbed to the comfort of our lives? Has the hidden hierarchy of Hollywood triggered a fixation of past loves and decided (for us all) that we will re-live their lives, their way?

I saw off with the "hot" colors and on with the platinums and aluminums... I want to dress like a spaceman and I want to do it now... why not? Aren't we in the future?