The bedroom seems the newest most popular place to be social today. With tons of social media sites to choose from, people are staying in more, gaining more friends online, and having conversations without uttering one single word all day. They only get up to drain the corporeal fluids, and intake nutrients from time to time when they feel they can't wait any longer. What is this new species of creature? The bedroom socialite of course.
A common conversation one may have with a bedroom socialite, if that conversation does not happen to use any sort of communication buffer technology such as a computer or cellphone, would go something like this:
You: Let's go out to the bar tonight.
Bedroom Socialite: Nah, I have some work to do.
You: What work? You've been "working" all day! Don't you ever take a break?
Bedroom Socialite: Yeah, but...
You: But what?
Bedroom Socialite: Look, I just don't feel like ... one sec, *types some obscure communication into the keyboard*
You: Are you even listening to me?
Bedroom Socialite: Yeah... yeah, I'm listening. *halts typing for a moment (for effect)*
You: When's the last time you went out?
Bedroom Socialite: Yesterday, to get some food. *typing insues*
You: I wouldn't call walking 20 feet to the corner store "going out". You've been working non-stop for the last month! I don't even think you're working at all.
Bedroom Socialite: Look, I'm working, *shows you a half-written blog entry from just-clicked window covering their chat*, I just have a lot of work to do that's all.
You: *hesitantly* Alright, well, you want to go do something this weekend? It's just that all of our friends are meeting up, and a lot of them have been asking about you. Ray had a horrible week and his son's sick in the hospital. We're all going to get together and ... am I distracing you?
Bedroom Socialite: Sure... *more typing and clicking*
You: Did you even here what I said?
Bedroom Socialite: Yeah, you said the friends are meeting up.
You: What else did I say?
Bedroom Socialite: *looks up from screen for a moment* ... um... you said that they're meeting up tomorrow for a party or something. *looks back to screen*
You: No... I was talking about this weekend, and Ray... never mind, I'm going to go.
Bedroom Socialite: *type type type* yeah, when you come back, could you stop by the store to pick me up a pack of Red Bulls?
*door shuts, almost undetected to the bedroom socialite, who doesn't seem to really care about your answer*
You could either suffer this drawn-out, half conversation on further, or just leave. Maybe best if you chose the latter. In this way, the bedroom socialite has virtually reached a new level of evolution in communication and does not often communicate by outdated oral methods. Other common traits of a bedroom socialite are an innate imperviousness to sleep-loss, often hunched back, love of snacks, the ability to "forget" when to eat or when to take out the trash, and the common ability to phase out most of physical reality for extended periods of time.
Judging by the differences between the bedroom socialite and their ancestors homo-sapiens sapiens, more commonly referred to as "humans," in both sleeping habits, food intake habits, general shape, stature, and mode of communication, science has confirmed that the bedroom socialite is the next step in human evoluition. Though both species share the same language, the bedroom socialite has adapted and migrated to the new virtual worlds of today, and knows multiple pseudo-languages that are only written or typed in their case. This evolution does not, however, exempt them from working a job for credits or "money", but some groups of bedroom socialites are working on new advanced methods of turning follower counts, votes, blog subscriptions, and virtual friends into other forms of physical virtual denomination called "money," (pronounced "mah-ni" for bedroom socialite readers, or simply written "$$").
The world may never be the same, now that we have entered the era of the bedroom socialite. One day, humans and bedroom socialites alike may learn to communicate again, or even integrate their societies, but that remains to be seen, and faces untold, unmapped obstacles. One thing is for sure, we're going to need a lot more Red Bulls and Coco-Puffs.
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