Top sign you need some friends in your life.

This isn't anything new per se, however it is something I just came across and thought was interesting/disturbing.

The online social networking site - Twitter (basically just a giant Facebookesque status update site) has made a name for itself in the online community as a website that allows you to stay connected with your friends, colleagues, and family via real time electronic life updates. Recently Twitter and outside sources have joined forces and given the option of what any grown straight man would want: The ability to get updates and messages from your household plants, flowers, and vegetation.

I wish I can say 'I kid' but I do not. 'Botanicalls DIY Plant Twitter Kit' allows any plant loving human to stay connected with house plants by adding them into their Twitter network and being in tuned with their constant bitching and moaning via status updates. The idea was brought to life after a cheif CERN Scientist was trying to find a way to communicate with Catnip (again...kid you not) and wanted to figure out a way to reeeeally get to know his plant and what was behind that green shell of emotionally tough exterior that the cat nip always seemed to wear. Oh to be in love.

You must assemble the kit yourself by connecting it to the Internet through the built-in ethernet jack and then jam the leads into the plant’s soil, and subscribe to the plant’s twitter feed. It will tell you when it needs watering, berate you and insult you for over watering, and report its status in between.

I know in this day and age people are trying to pay a little more attention to nature, and do what they can to make an honest effort to introduce 'Green' elements into their day to day lives...but seriously folks. Adding your plants to your friends list and listening for it to tell you what to do and what's wrong with your life is exactly juuuust what I need. Never mind your Girlfriend or Mother reminding you that you are a useless wanker, why not let your neglected Chia Pet get in on the action and degrade you as well?