It has been a while. For an Average Joe, I've been uncommonly busy. Please excuse my absence and the obvious lack of interesting thoughts. Here's an interesting, albeit light-hearted thought for your enjoyment. Plan on a post at least once a week from now on.
We humans believe that we are incredibly advanced. We build homes, we wear clothes, we brush our teath (or at least we claim to brush our teath). Social networking, one of the most incredible and influential additions to our social existence, has changed our lives. But we cannot claim the originality of social networking, and neither can Mark Zuckerburg. That honor belongs to man's best friend, the K9.
Dogs have been soical networking for years, by marking their territory everywhere they go. They go outside and immediately start sniffing every tree, pole, and fire-hydrant in site. They aren't interested in the tree. They are interested in the status of the dogs they are friends with. That smell tells them everything facebook does. It tells them what their friends have eaten lately, where they've been, and updates them on their current relationship status. Dogs enjoy the frequent and informative status updates and such offered by the original social network.
So next time you take your dog for a walk, don't get frustrated at them for their wanting to stop, sniff and mark. Let them check in on their friends, because you would hate it if some giant tied a rope around your neck and yanked you away from the computer everytime you saw a new notification. Our animals deserve to have their social networks too.