Cyber Scene

What is with our generation? We find someway to take a really neat idea, and manage to use it to objectify ourselves. The technology I am talking about is blogs, specifically social blogs such as MySpace and Facebook. These technologies have a good intention of widening the field by making meeting people much easier. This is generally a good idea, except when you begin meeting or wanting to meet people because of the picture they display in the top corner. This turns looking for people you are interested in, into looking for people who look interesting. This wouldn't be a problem if looks were not a major part, but we are not in such a world. Problems arise not from posting a picture of your self, but several pictures which are highly appealing to internet predators. But the female gender is not entirely to blame, but the males who promote an environment where girls feel they have to dress a certain way.
Our generation may be at the beginning of the technological age with new advances in biotechnology, computers, and materials sciences, but with all these new developments, the moral fabric of society is decaying. Now I am not some radical evangelical who is asking for dramatic changes, but I do not want to see society to continue to decay socially. In a era where people can send a message through cyberspace in a fraction of a second, people are not taking a minute to question things in their life. Young couples are not questioning whether they really want to get married so early, despite the statistics that suggest a higher divorce rate for young couples. Many young girls do not think about the implications of the way they dress because their friends, older sisters, or celebrity whores dress in a similar distasteful fashion. And young men do not think about the impact of leaving their wife and newly born kids. Our generation needs to do something about this problem; otherwise we will just be a part of it.