Today I have graduated from obsessing about pop stars, wonderfully good lucking soap stars and the like even being able to get all the women in the house off the telephones so I can use it. This was before everyone had a mobile telephone or two for those that can’t relate.

However, todays obsessions seem to firmaly routed in technology. Even for teenagers or should I say especially for teenagers. Gone are the days of visiting one another privately in each others bedrooms and oggling posters of soap stars, boy bands and dishy actors. todays youth have a new electronic obsession. Its still top secret and hiding somewhere in the PC or the Mobile or iphone or whatever new gadget they come with next. They can’t even seem to walk anywhere anymore without one of these new fangeled running gadgets! Teenagers will find a way to keep it top secret. Todays obsessions are no longer in paper magazines or selotaped/nailed to the wall.

The new obsession of today is called facebook. It’s a “social” utility. So instead of visititng each others bedrooms, even when its half way across town, the new obsession is “facebook”. This computer application is so “social” that one finds one’s teenager barricading themselves in their room with nothing other than this annoying machine called a computer/laptop/PC and typing into it!

This PC that connects to the internet via a bunch of wires and is so exiting doesn’t seem to be so much fun at first glance. Its that machine you type into that people say, especially teenagers and computer science types can do lots of stuff if you believe the hype, but usually turns itself off and loses all your work in the middle, “freezes” or won’t do what you want it to right when your almost done.

You know I heard on the radio that the second highest number of face book new users is no longer teenagers. Its fast becoming adults in their 30s and 40s! What a surprise they say. I don’t. Its not rocket science. We are spying on you youngsters. That’s right. Watch out. We are now on facebook too and I feel I must admit fast becoming obsessed with it ourselves–