Comment from Patty Palmer

Excellent

Wow! That was a fist full of words of half I can't pronounce! LOL very interesting! All true too, especially the friends we never meet! But those are some of our best friends!
God bless!
Patty

 Comment Written 06-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 06-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and your comments supporting the poem. If only we could meet those friends face to face, in person. We are social creatures, made and designed to live in reality, with physical interaction engaging our senses. Not living through machines. Maybe some day we can do a Fanstory get together. That ought to be interesting. estory

reply by Patty Palmer on 06-Jul-2019

Yeh that would be neat to get together and meet all of these people we share our innermost thoughts and even secrets

Comment from juliaSjames

Excellent

An excellent poem of the connectivity that has shrunk our planet to the size of a smartphone.

Isn't it wonderful that the human spirit is too wild and untrammeled to be shared by machines?

I'm impressed by the research you put in to composing your free verse.

Blessings Julia

 Comment Written 05-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 06-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and your vote of confidence in the style and format and comments on the theme. I spent a long time thinking about the intent, computers and thinking about them in the context of Revelations. In my opinion, computers are the anti-Christ, the beast that lives without life. And cell phones are the second beast, proceeding from the first, which all men worship. scary. estory

reply by juliaSjames on 06-Jul-2019

Oh my Estory. I believe man can use anything for good or evil. Hope the good angels prevail.

Blessings Julia

Comment from Janetsue

Excellent

So many people come together over the internet by sharing who they are and being kind. The internet is both good and bad because you have to be careful about making a negative contact.

The internet and other technology is advancing so rapidly.

I appreciate you posting this poem. You are obviously talented and very creative.

 Comment Written 05-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 06-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and your comments and perspective on the poem. I'm glad it got so many people thinking. In some ways, the ability to connect with many different writers on Fanstory across the globe is good, but it would be so much better if we could round table in person and bounce ideas off each other face to face. We are social creatures made to share through our senses. estory

reply by Janetsue on 06-Jul-2019

You're very welcome! :-)

Comment from Robert Zimmerman

Excellent

Your description of the connectivity we all suffer from sounds so clinical when you say it that way. IT IS clinical. In fact it is also permanent for the ages. I pity those who don't understand the permanence of what they do on this ball of connectivity. Z

 Comment Written 05-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 05-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and your interesting perspective on the poem. I think it's best to avoid technology and the internet in most situations. I just post here. I don't even have a cell phone. I like to go to stores, talk to sales people, shopping online is a vapid experience for me. I don't want to live in virtual reality. estory

reply by Robert Zimmerman on 05-Jul-2019

You're welcome. I don't like technology anymore. That was my career field. I do no social media other than FS.

Comment from misscookie

Excellent

This is just how I feel all these tech is driving me insane
I'm recovering from a stroke I'm not joking
can Hardly remember simple things
yet my great grand child learn this stuff when he was about four or five
oh how I miss the simple life of communicating face to face Thank you for sharing
cookie

 Comment Written 05-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 05-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and your interesting perspective on the poem. Yes, it is a generational gap getting wider and wider, until we hardly feel a part of the world anymore. estory

reply by misscookie on 05-Jul-2019

Your very welcome
Until next-time
Cookie

Comment from Janice Canerdy

Excellent

Your thought-provoking piece vividly addresses the world's obsession with technology, the Internet in particular. I suppose the reality that disturbs me the most is that criminals no longer have to knock us in the
head or crawl through a window at midnight to rob us!

 Comment Written 04-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 05-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and the interesting perspective on the poem. Yes, it is a scary world out there; in many ways, we have less control than ever. estory

Comment from Gail Denham

Excellent

Well, we're sure there aren't we? In the cable network, never seeing the other - everything done by a little machine - or a smaller machine - our grandson has a computer watch! What?
I do miss getting a letter though - or having someone phone me.
Good look at today in your poem.

 Comment Written 04-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 05-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and the interesting comments on the poem and the theme. I think you got it exactly; the world, and life, is becoming more and more impersonal, more and more a caricature of itself. estory

Comment from Ogden

Excellent

A dizzying blizzard of Internetisms, typifying the multifariousness of the phenomenon that came aborning in most of our lifetimes.
Good work, Estory!

Don

 Comment Written 04-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 05-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and the comments on the poem. I am glad the rapid fire staccato music of the poem seemed to work in underscoring the theme. estory

Comment from Gloria ....

Excellent

This is a most apt poem illustrating the disconnect, connected interactions on the Internet. There are upsides and downsides and it's mainlining to the brain because the face-to-face part isn't present the other parts of the brain are activated like a drug. In my experience a lot of folks are totally different in person than they are online, and that is a real mystery, yes? LOL So which person is the real person? Neither is my guess.

One small typo: And surveillance tecniques (techniques) practiced

Great job, e.

Gloria

 Comment Written 03-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 05-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and all your wonderful comments and perspective on the poem. It is interesting how computers have manipulated personality and behavior, and created this whole new persona for the socially interactive person. Scary. estory

Comment from Irish Rain

Excellent

'you never meet in person' is the
phrase I most identify with.
I grew up without all of this, and
while I enjoy it...when our electric
went out for a 4 day weekend...I didn't miss
it. I read more.
Frightening how dependent the world's become.
Very clever and detailed poem,
blessings and Happy 4th!!

 Comment Written 03-Jul-2019

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reply by the author on 05-Jul-2019

Thanks for the excellent review and all the comments and perspective on the poem. There is something sinister, something vapid and hollow about the mechanized, computerized, artificial world of today. I'm glad the poem seemed to capture those qualities estory

reply by Irish Rain on 05-Jul-2019

'sinister, vapid and hollow'...exactly! Sorta zombie-making.