With technology at our finger tips, a lot has changed for good and for bad. Borrowing from Chris-Vincent Agyapong Febiri, “I love technology and I appreciate all the goodness that comes with it, but I won’t ever want to trade my human capacity, experience and existence for it”…

Recently during a chit chat with a new friend, she asked what my hobbies are…In fact, this simple question was difficult to be answered. Immediately, I poured out the list of the known hobbies—reading, swimming, travelling and movies.

Apart from movies, I know I am not keen about any of the above. It seems the non-availability of time on my hands and the obstruction technology creates has relegated to the background many of our traditional hobbies…

I spend several hours each day on facebook and twitter—therefore, I will be sad if facebooking or tweeting cannot be accepted as a hobby. If they are not, what are they then?

The days of Ludo are gone and reading as a hobby is pretty much overtaken by catching up on gossip and news. And I bet this does not count as reading in the world of hobby.

When I mentioned that I love reading, I hope you were not thinking about reading in the sense of  books. I was talking about reading the blogs and facebook status of friends.

Surely, I am not the only one left without an acceptable hobby—courtesy of new technology and inventions…

Do you have a real hobby and are you able to find time to pursue it? Facebooking and Tweeting better be a hobby, so I can gladly list it on my next job application form …