Where the Butterflies Go

Heather Grace Stewart: Author, Poet, Photographer

A poem about social networking

Social networking

I’d grow wiser if I watched
webcasts of the Dalai Lama.
But, no way I’m leaving Twitter:
I’m being followed by Obama.

What am I doing?
Do you really care to know?
I’m eating lemon pie
And dancing to “Jai, Ho!”

How’d you stumble upon me?
All these passwords; I’m confused.
They own all my content?
We’re the Users and the used.

Now, I won’t be a hypocrite;
I Tweet my time away,
change my status often;
check my blog stats every day.

But if people gave a dollar
for every single Tweet,
homes could be built
and cancer could be beat.

I like to be connected.
I’m not saying that it’s wrong.
But how’d we switch from
talking to texting all day long?

No, I don’t need to know
who your peeps are porkin’
but, no way I’m leaving Facebook:
I’m friends with Aaron Sorkin.

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June 9, 2009 Posted by heather grace stewart | Aaron Sorkin on Facebook, Friendship, Obama on Twitter, Online Relationships, Online penpals, Poems about Facebook, Poems about Twitter, Poems about technology, Poems that rhyme, Poetry, Relationships, Social Networking, poems about social networking | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments