Loneliness In The Age Of Social Media
After my adolescent years, long before I became a scavenger at the reference section of libraries, I knew, that, to feel complete as a human being, you need a strong sense of belonging. In the past, we wrote letters, we walked to each other’s houses, we traveled to visit relatives, we sent telegrams. Later, we made phone calls; email soon threatened that. These days, we think calls are intrusive, we send emotionless, straight to the point text messages. We congregate on facebook and engage our vanity on Instagram. While facebook has become the modern and globalized version of the village square of old, Instagram has become the family album and now steemit is making it different here posting and make money when someone Upvot your post and more. Both platforms have created a dangerous illusion of being connected. We feel gratified by likes, comments, retweets on facebook and Twitter, steem. thus fooling ourselves into thinking we are satisfying the core requirements of forming and maintaining relationships among ourselves. Technology has distracted us from the core of what is important. That is the forming, this platform giving people more opportunity to meet people at the same time you are making money. bonding and maintenance of true friends, with whom we can be ourselves instead of our carefully designed and scripted online persona.....