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No estoy hablando de ningún desafío o una manda, llevo cinco meses sin haber estado en frente a uno de estos aparatos porque sencillamente no lo he necesitado (La única excepción son algunos días que voy a casa de David y jugamos a la play). Todas mis necesidades audiovisuales han estado cubiertas por internet y las películas y series que tengo en mi disco duro externo.

No es mi intención dar una reprimenda moral porque sea una virtud el hecho de haber dejado de lado la caja tonta. De hecho estoy en frente de otra que además me daña mucho más la vista y sigo viendo las mismas series estúpidas de toda la vida (aunque sin realities que es el formato más aburrido y absurdo que he visto en mi vida). La ventaja, eso sí, es que todo lo que veo es intencional y a cualquier hora. La desventaja, echo de menos los comerciales, de hecho, creo que no me importaría que YouTube nos hiciera ver un comercial antes de cada vídeo.

Una cosa está clara. Aunque el resto del universo sigue mirando la tele en forma regular, la tendencia es que disminuya, incluso ahora con la llegada de la tele digital. Lo cierto es que aunque no creo que dejemos de ver televisión, difícil es que la sigamos viendo en la televisión.

Why did I think something odd was going on? Allow me to explain:

This morning I decided not to go to class. Instead, I went to the park, for I had worked so hard on my presentation last night that my mind deserved a break. I sat on a bench and tried not to think about stuff. And there I was! just chilling out, minding my own business, staring at the ducks thinking that nothing could possibly go wrong.

Suddenly, something – what’s the word to describe it? Oh, yes - uncanny started to occur to the people passing through. First, I saw a professor (who shall remain nameless) proudly displaying photos of his new born cat to random people coming across him – how weird – thought - well… everyone is allow to have some idiosyncrasies and who am I to judge, anyways?

Nevertheless, the weirdness didn’t stop there, because just a few seconds after I noticed that two fellow students coming from opposite directions were carrying very unusual banners; one had the title The Worst 5 Movies I Have Ever Seen and the other reddish one said, I just find out the color of my aura. Then I saw a blond girl on the bench next to mine inviting everyone to take the quiz “What Your Birth Date Reveals about You!”

Nah, that didn’t freak me out, really. What did freak me out was what my eyes witnessed after that: Students, professors, even ground keepers started to randomly shout, publicly describing the status of their current actions or thoughts: “going to the library”, “ got one extra snack shaking the bending machine, whoa!” “Guy next to me keeps staring at my cleavage”, “going to miss the bus, sight!”, “standing next to the hottest girl I've ever seen, but I’m too terrified to say anything”, “30 euros for this tiny book on linguistic! Give me a break!”, “I hate university”…

What was wrong with the world! What the heck!

In that moment of total confusion and paranoia I woke up; I was sitting on my desk, dripping saliva out my mouth. I looked at the screen and I decided that it was time to turn off the computer… Gosh! I’ve got to quit Facebook.