Over the years, the emergence of numerous social media networks has helped us a lot, especially in connecting people all around the world, end to end. The development of this technology has been our pride, and communicating has never been easier.
Right?
Yes, social media networks are made with
the purpose of making the communications easier, no doubt about that.
But somehow.. Don’t you think that it fails to connect people heart to
heart? We are no longer communicating face to face but screen to screen
instead. Expressions are replaced with emoticons and dialogues are
replaced with text messages. Not that I’m saying it’s bad, believe me.
It’s great that we can show what expression we wear through emoticons,
and it’s great that we can just send a quick text whenever we want to
communicate with someone.
But the thing is, no matter how great the
SNS world is, it’s ONLINE. Not on real life, its ONLINE. It’s important
we understand that there is a firm line between these two worlds; the
real world and the online world. This is where the problem lies. We were
so adapted to that world more than we realized that it’s becoming hard
to tell them apart. Communications through the network is great, but
communications in the real world are equally important.
And we seems to forget that.
These days, whenever a disagreement or dis-satisfactions are surfacing, often, we found ourselves typing on the
SNS instead of actually talking about it. Whether it’s regarding our
friends, people we hated or even sensitive issues, we found it easier to
just fill up our timelines instead of having real communications about
it. Will the problems solved by bombarding our timelines?
Come on, we know it’s not.
Communications helps us build good
relationship especially, with our family members. This is an unspoken
fact. But what I saw is that nowadays, its normal to see a big family
sitting together on a table, without exchanging a single conversation
with each other while waiting for the food to be served. Everyone is so
addicted to this online world that they don’t even have time to glance
up looking at the family members and start a conversation. We know that
talking with each other more can toughen up the bond we had and deepened
the understanding of one another. So why aren’t we doing it?Are we sure
that reading our family members status updates alone are enough to
build a good foundations of our family institutions?
I don’t have to tell you the answer, didn’t I? Because deep down, you already know.
So my real questions is, is this what we want as a culture? Is this what we are after for in this so-called modernized society?
Really?
Direct communications in life shouldn’t
be that hard right? If we have a little spat with our friends, we can
just talk face to face with them instead of worrying about what kind of
hint should we drop on our SNS page so that he/she realized that we are
actually disagreeing with certain he/she on certain level of things. And
when we are with our family, why not talk to each other more? Things
like ‘what happened to me today’ or things like ‘what I really can’t stand‘,
should be shared so that we can understand our family members
better. After all, what can be more valuable than our own family?
Come on, let’s live a real life now should we?
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