Red Alert!

So, Twitter is down today.  I tried to log on this morning from my BlackBerry to write about how Jeremy Piven was awesome on GMA and how I could not wait to see The Goods next weekend.  Well, I couldn't get on to Twitter.  I figured it was my BlackBerry being stupid.

Then I got on my computer and could not get on either.  Then I logged on to Facebook where everyone was writing about Twitter being down.  Turns out, Facebook was intermittently out as well.  Super hackers.

An MSNBC article informed me that Twitter was being hacked and that's why no one could log on.  It also quoted a bunch of people screaming about how lost they are without Twitter.  That got me thinking...  Would I be lost without a website?  And the answer is no.

I rather enjoy the Internet.  I like reading blogs and playing online spades and Facebooking, but really, if I couldn't for a day or a month or forever I would OK.  I think as a culture we are too dependent and too addicted to the Internet.  But I think that's OK, because this is 2009 and why shouldn't we be?  You can't tell me that if your Grandpa didn't have a laptop while he was hiking seven miles, up hill, in the snow to school every day that he wouldn't have been checking his email.

I mean, if I didn't read www.dlisted.com (the best gossip blog ever, but not for the weak of heart or easily offended) I would totally suck at trivia and I would have no idea what Brad and Angelina are up to.  If I didn't Facebook I wouldn't know that half the people I'm friends with went to see Beyonce (which, they were all at the show updating their Facebook status about how amazing the show was but it seems to me that if they were screwing around on their phones updating their status then how much attention were they really paying to Beyonce?).  And, if I wasn't on Twitter then you wouldn't know that I had leftover rice for lunch (and really, isn't that a valuable thing for you to know?).  

So, people of 2009, take a deep breath.  Twitter will be back soon.  In the meantime, turn of the computer and go watch TV (or read a book if you even still know what a book is, and I'm talking a real book, not one of those Kindle things).