Today in Denmark the air is cold but lightened by the freshness of the rain.
Rain has a funny way of bringing about contemplation. Maybe it's the hum it makes as it bounces from surface to surface or the intensity of which it coaxes out of color and smell.
by: silentshot
I have long been reluctant to the technologically advancing world. If anything could make the air cold it was the vast web of connectedness that I could only be reached through a screen.
For me, the vibrant shades that colour my life had always been something more tangible, something more physical, something - human.
Computers, social media, smartphones, apps, robot operators etc. are like clouds that promise the taste of rain, yet you've never felt a raindrop on your tongue.
You can't FEEL the computer, or the person on the other side. You can't smell the pheromones or reach out for a hand.
The idea that most relationships should exist in cyberspace and that our senses should hardly be considered an asset to the equation frightened me.
I mean, it still does.
Yet, here I sit writing my next entry in hopes that I can build a relationship with you, the cyber steemit community.
I will admit, the chance of being part of a huge change, an 'evolution', if you will, intrigued. The platform also seemed to allow for all styles and types of writing as well as access to a large audience - no audition required.
And since joining Steemit - my creativity as exploded and ideas have blossomed on newly fertile ground. And now its all I want to do - write and build a relationship with you, sweet steemers.
But steemit isn't the only technological relationship that is taking over my life. Interacting with a computer on some level whether emails, facebook, instagram, university or facetime to my family back in Canada is a full time job and I don't get paid for overtime.
Now it sounds like I am complaining and thats not the point at all. The real moral of the story is not really a moral at all, but
a question, to you steemies.
How do you balance your relationship with computers and online interactive technologies such as steemit or facebook?
Do you consider your time on steemit a full-time or a part-time job and treat it as such?
How many hours do you spend on the computer a day?
How have your relationship with people and 'meeting in the flesh' changed in the past 20 years? - This question is maybe a stretch, but I am sure there are some out there, that can remember before the time of cell phones and wifi 📞
And last but not least, what brought you to steemit?
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Ciao for now, sweet steemers
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