Lines of peo­ple stretch for blocks around the local elec­tron­ics store.

Some of these indi­vid­u­als have skipped work or have been sit­ting in line for days wait­ing to be the first of their friends to enter the store. All of this just for a tablet computer.

This is the scene I wit­nessed on the news show­cas­ing the insan­ity that the new iPad 2 has cre­ated with its recent release.

Mind you that the first iPad was just released at this time last year. So that won­der­ful new piece of tech­nol­ogy that you waited for in line for hours, and that you aban­doned all forms of proper hygiene for a few days to get, will just be old news come this time next year.

But this is the way that soci­ety func­tions now; if you don’t have the newest and coolest sta­tus items the day they come out, then be pre­pared to be left in the dust.

It’s sad to see how wrapped up peo­ple have become with them­selves and keep­ing a cer­tain sta­tus level.

People will aban­don their respon­si­bil­i­ties to wait in line and live like the home­less for a day just to say they got the hot new phone first and that no one else got it before them.

Does it work any bet­ter, just because you waited in line like a fool for days, than the same phone that the idiot behind you in line just purchased?

In a world where peo­ple feel they need to post their entire daily sched­ule on Facebook, it’s become sad to see how peo­ple have become obsessed with themselves.

No one cares that you just slept for 12 hours and now you’re going to the mall, so don’t make me read your stu­pid sta­tus update about your point­less daily activities.

Part of it is that we’ve become fix­ated on think­ing that the world needs to know what is going on at every moment of our lives.

Don’t get me wrong, I have accounts with many social media ser­vices, but the obses­sion with updat­ing the world to every aspect of an individual’s life is part of the mind­set of stay­ing pop­u­lar and keep­ing up-to-date with society.

So what if you don’t have the lat­est smart­phone? Who cares if you didn’t stand in line for hours for the new com­puter that you just bought?

There’s no need to try and keep up in the sta­tus race. Just make sure you’re happy with what you’ve got. That new iPad can’t keep you com­pany if you’re stuck in an empty apart­ment with no friends. n

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