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Check out my new skill - Gargling while clipping my toe nails with my shoes on

Of all the multitudes of ways that people try to stay hyperconnected today, is the idea of forced alerting other humans when they have obtained new skills.  Networking websites then propogate this so called acquisition to anyone who happens to be connected through cyberspace with this individual.


Now how on earth am I to vet the skill that someone claims to have acquired when all along I took them to be competing for 'suckiest human ever' award? 


Notwithstanding, people will continue unabated to highlight their highlights in the rug over their head, as well as what they think needs highlighting like their newly acquired skills - juggling, project management, dog walking, snoring while awake, acquiring new skills (or made up ones for that matter), broadcasting said skills, etc..


Also their software settings are set to broadcast their beliefs immediately to the world wide web or those that partake any part of it, so that you may be impressed with this plethora of abilities this individual has amassed. 


I found that habit to be presumptuous and the only way to shut out from these invaders of your cyberspace is to leave the 'cyber' anything entirely.


Walking among the mountains on occasion helps.


For that matter detach to the point where you are now no longer connected to anything that has an ON/Off Switch or in the vicinity of one.   'Off the grid' some say and while they are at it they make sure that this newly acquired status is also broadcast to those denizens that have not figured out this idea.


So now let me get back to my gargling.

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  1. RajendraJanuary 30, 2016 at 3:11 AM

    Snoring while awake, or Embracing oneself seem skills worth acquiring!

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