Our society’s dependence on the Internet is becoming a little bit ridiculous these days.

Today in Manhattan, a woman named Anna found herself in the middle of a bank robbery at an HSBC in the Big Apple. Instinct hit the woman, and she did what any modern technology lover would do – she picked up her Blackberry and – logged onto Twitter.

Come on lady! Call the cops! This is Anna’s first tweet: “my bank was just held up- with me in it. HSBC 34 and 8. also my whole trackball is GONE!!! im locked in the bank still.”

The woman sat there the entire time while the bank was being robbed Twittering away about the real news – the fact that she had lost her little track ball off the Blackberry. The poor girl couldn’t even scroll up on her menu to reply to the people who began filling her Twitter account with hate mail about the fact that she was more concerned about her trackball than her wellbeing. Her biggest concern was that she couldn’t call work. For what? To tell them you’ll be a little late due to the bank robbery? Or because you lost the trackball?

I have a feeling that even Donald Trump might think of “I was stuck in a bank because it was robbed,” as a decent excuse to be a few minutes late for your shift.

Quite honestly, if I were in a bank robbery my first reaction would be something along the lines of EVERYBODY PANIC! Not oh my, I better get on Twitter and give everybody a play by play.

When the cops arrived, Anna’s “Tweets” read “Maybe they’ll let me go now.” Then she seemed just appalled that the police wanted to question her, because even though she was a mere two people away from the robbers, she didn’t even notice.

Clearly her observation skills rolled away from her like her trackball.

Some things are more important in life, such as basic survival. Anna has obviously forgotten that dangerous things happen in real life, not just in images you see on the Internet.

When did the Internet take away from our basic instincts? When did we become bored of real life excitement?

I’ve gotta say, if I was the robber and my robbery was inspiring yawns, I would be quite disappointed. I would hazard a guess that this Anna character would have found herself in real life danger if this robber had noticed her boredom.

I guess he didn’t. Clearly his trackball was off kilter too, or perhaps he was Twittering to his buddies too. Maybe it said something like; “lifeofcrime122: Robbing the HSBC on 8th and 26th right now. Taking so long.”

To me, a bank robbery is not a run of the mill everyday activity. I’m sure that in Manhattan this sort of thing must happen more often, but to be so bored when you’re caught up in one that you have to surf the Internet to keep yourself occupied? The only acceptable excuse to hit Twitter during a robbery would maybe be if it was readily accessible and you were unable to phone for help, which is what Anna claims in her Tweets, but instead of tweeting about the travesty that is the loss of her trackball, maybe send out a “please help, my bank at whatever street is being robbed, call police,” or something of that nature.

Our dependence as a society on Internet applications is getting out of control. We have to start thinking of real life as exciting again, rather than waiting to hear about it on social applications such as Twitter or Facebook.

I’m sure no one is interested though; the Internet age has taken over Journalism too. Maybe I should Tweet about this, maybe someone will hear me.