Fading memories

I used to think that I have a very good memory when people were pleasantly surprised by the amount of details I used to recall. It turns out that I was just remembering slightly different things compared to most others. I had a small number of friends at any given time. I used to be like a fossil - old and out dated after whenever people moved on. I moved very slowly through psychological time since nothing much happened for me.

Those memories seem to be fading away now. Perhaps it is facebook? My selective memory is unable to cope up with the sheer volume of digital records. I got in because otherwise I was going to be left behind. It is great that you never have to lose a friend and rediscover old ones but it is almost as if the facebook accounts are friends with each other and do a lot together and you can just watch them go about it. Every account is a celebrity or a broadcast service. There's hardly any connection with the audience.

It perhaps won't be all bad. For now, I feel like an asocial dinosaur suddenly finding himself in the midst of some modern cult gathering.