#20 Be Online

Get facebook.

If you already do, you should check it.

These days, staying in touch is one of the most important parts of life. Maintaining an active twitter account, using instant messengers as much as possible and saving money on cell phone bills by using Skype are all vital to a modern lifestyle. Furthermore, invest in a Blackberry or iPhone so you can update twitter and facebook as much as possible. Although only get a data or text plan and don't waste time calling people.

You may also want to consider starting a blog.

Aside from frequently checking your FB updates and celebrities tweets, maintain an active flickr account. Be sure to include party pictures, pets, and anything else that looks really cool and is near you when you've got your DSLR handy. Which should be always.

The point of maintaining an active life online is actually two fold. For one, engaging in modern pass times and keeping up with current trends shows you are in touch with the world and are social. When hanging out with friends or going to events, keep in mind: if it's not on twitter it didn't happen!

Secondly, immersing yourself in the digital world means you are embracing the contemporary. Do you want to tell your grandkids, who will probably only talk to you via email or hollogram chats, that you didn't visit Stumblupon, troll 4chan or untag yourself on facebook? NO!

All those things you think you should be doing, DON'T DO THEM! They aren't going anywhere! If you leave that essay untouched for a day, it won't go bad. But the internet is a living, breathing thing! It ebbs and flows with the seasons (television), lives and dies with the memes!

Engage in the present! Don't let life pass you by! Grab it by the touch screen and really LIVE!!

If you can't prove, via flickr, facebook or blogger that there is a heart beating in your chest, one that goes to parties, went to the mall that one time or had a Macbook with Photobooth, you haven't lived.......