Computers: Or when I learned I suck at social

Computers and I have a short and ambitious history together. I am a computer science major, so I have some familiarity with the medium. I have long seen computers as a tool for work and business, and a setting for interactive entertainment. Yet for others there is a completely different mechanism behind there relationship with a computer. Social interaction at it's finest. Talking, Chatting, Skypeing, Video Chatting, Youtube videos, Facebook, Forums, E-mail. Almost all the of some people's time on a computer is spend either posting content for discussion and review (very formal way of stating this), or reviewing other people's ideas. For generations the computer has been an homage to the lacking-social-luster nerd category. Someone who neither likes to talk to others or someone no one else likes to talk to. Now everyone and their dog (you've heard of the cat that tweet's right?) has a smartphone, netbook, or is an ABC (Apple Based Consumerist, this includes me, only I got mine used so I have more nerd cred). But why do people need all these things? To talk to people of course. Texting is not inherently fun, although unless you are a 12-25 year old girl either is talking on the phone. Your sad little fingers are crying as you make them cramp together and push those tiny little touch-screen buttons as you tell your friend about what Shane said to Annie last weekend or just the words WTF? for no reason. Even as a person of means I have no texting for my phone. I don't keep a chat page open on my computer for months at a time. I don't even bring my phone with me half of the time I leave my house. Maybe it's my lack of interesting things to say to people that makes me so bad at the new internet comm. phenomena. But one thing is more apparent than ever being social is hard, whether it is on the internet or not. People are born with it, they try real hard to get it, or they fail at it. I am of the latter category.