I am digitally fatigued<\/p>\n
Saturated<\/p>\n
Overwhelmed<\/p>\n
I just don\u2019t get it anymore<\/p>\n
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Garance Dore just posted a very relevant post on FOMO ( Fear Of Losing Out ) here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> which gave me anxiety attacks when I read it because as I observe people going nuts on social media I am regressing into as low fi an (unconnected) \u00a0life as I can. \u00a0 \u00a0I posted a few weeks ago a very appropriate video called I forgot My Phone<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> , which deals with this . Do not miss it. \u00a0 \u00a0I am not over-connected and I never will be , I have no personal Facebook account nor am I on Instagram , and yet looking at how people around me live gives me nightmares.<\/p>\n I was having dinner this weekend with my boyfriend at an incredible oyster restaurant on a wooden pier on Tomales Bay, Northen California : Middle Of Nowhere.<\/p>\n It was an unbelievable experience, the sun was setting , there was water all around us, we were in a beautiful old wooden room, ducks were flying outside the windows, geese migrating, wolves howling\u2026whatever \u2026it was paradise, but obviously not paradise enough for the silly foodies\/lame over-sharers at the table next to us.<\/p>\n Ok first of all the word foodie : pet hate .<\/p>\n You like food, we get it . Stop calling yourself a foodie, you are ridiculous. You probably cannot cook and you buy your fresh produce at Safeways instead of going to your local farmer’s market .\u00a0 WTF ?<\/p>\n A foodie is not someone who likes food \u2026. everyone likes food ! \u00a0 \u00a0a foodie thinks he knows food because he reads Trip Advisor . \u00a0A foodie never goes to a farmer\u2019s market either , they go to Whole Foods and they get their crapucinos at Starbucks\u2026.as you can read\u2026I hate foodies . \u00a0They contribute nothing to food culture except recommending you bad restaurants . Two years ago they were drinking Folgers instant coffee with Coffee-Mate \u00a0and now they are all Volluto from their Nespresso machines .<\/p>\n So back to the beautiful wooden room on the water with the sunset :\u00a0The moment this couple sat down at their table they started sharing the experience , plate by plate, forkful by forkful , on Instagram. \u00a0 Hey look : a good bottle of wine : snap, post, hey look an empty glass of wine: snap, post, hey look a selfie \u00a0with my empty again glass of wine in front of the setting sun : snap : post, hey look I just ate an oyster : here is the empty oyster shell, snap post , hey \u00a0look ! another plate of food arrived, wait ! don\u2019t taste it, I have to shoot it ! snap \u00a0post \u00a0stare and my phone : \u00a0any comments, did anyone reply to me ? is anyone there ? hellooooooo ? look at me pleaseeeeeeee \u00a0! I just posted a shot of an oyster shell on my Instagram feed !!!!!<\/p>\n This went on and on for exactly 1 and 1\/2 hours by which time I had finished my dinner and was ready to go but they were still taking pix of the table, the empty wine glasses , the \u00a0menu and\u00a0 every single mouthfull they took<\/p>\n Of course we were in such a remote place that there was no phone coverage so their dinner experience was ruined because they were ignored and constantly checking to see if anyone replied . As I walked past their tables i heard one of them say : oh ! maybe Twitter works here ?<\/p>\n Since no one tweets anymore , and Instagram is the new black \u00a0I left them with a sad and resigned look on their faces when they realized \u00a0that they had to face each other with nothing to talk about .<\/p>\n the end<\/p>\n