A E Allord

Amazing how people today feel passing of electrons between two smart phones is actually a human connection with one another. Although and article in the Daily Mail has their science writer ditch their smartphone for two weeks. At the end she felt more disconnected from family and friends whereby even her husband requested she go back to her smartphone because he felt more disconnected from her.

This is a very sad reality today. Relationships are replaced by Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram; etc. Cave writing has become the normal for texting one another and the world is going to end if you don’t paste pictures of what you are doing at least 25 times per day. This includes while you are working, vacationing and even before and after sharing your personal time with a significant other. Yet all this connection and the younger generation cannot bother to go to their friends house, cannot find times to just sit around in the evening and talk with one another.

No, they have to keep in touch constantly. Go out on a date and both have faces plastered to smartphone screens and then they say they are connected and in touch with one another.

I don’t know why she regret giving up that smartphone. I myself have given up every social media site other than LinkedIn. No Facebook. I’m sorry I wasn’t connected to anyone on those platforms. I felt like I was only and intruder or just someone added as a friend so the poster could feel they are connected to more people. Sorry, that scene is not for me as I see what people don’t have today as a result.

Neighbors don’t know one another, cameras watch everything for them, they trust no one unless they are on a smartphone and you can reach them via some social media platform. Connection between people has been severed through social media. Connection to reality is slowly fading and will one day be gone. Social media is the thing where fallacy survives. People can no longer talk because of social media. They can’t even realize they are unable to disagree with a friend and remain friends. Yet, they run back to these devices consuming their relationships and real human connection.

If you disagree with loss of human connection due to technology then you simply have never experienced friends outside playing together with neighbors until the street lights came on. Or conversations on the playground, listening to your friend talk about how something bad happened to them. Trust me, you cannot console someone via text and Facebook like you can with that person right across from you.

For her, the lesson was she cannot live without her smartphone. For me the lesson was how pathetic her marriage is when your spouse says get on social media with a smartphone because without it you are destroying our relationship.