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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Its a strange world we live in now days. 9.3 million people signed up for help at nobullying.com due to online trolls and cyber bullying. Take time to think about that.
Sticks and stones is not the only thing that can hurt now and destroy peoples lives. Words have the ability to build someone up or knock them down. But do we take responsability on what we post nowdays and the damage it can cause.
Through our history we have forever strived to be connected with society. Its not always been an easy thing todo, some of you have reached a certain age that you will remember not even having a house phone. Today it we want to reach out to anyone at any point in our day, we can. We are connected through every mobile phone, Pad, laptop etc by the power of WiFi.
The question is have we forgotten how to connect with each other on a human level. Are we letting basically binary code strip away the emotion, leaving gaps and holes for miscommunication.
Is social media replacing deep, meaningful conversations, are we becoming scared to look someone in the eye and actually feel something.
At work, at home and even out with friends we spend our time staring emotionless at our devices, even creating emoticons to hold on tightly to the idea that we are indeed emotional.
We use passive aggressive on social medial posts without a thought of others.
We try to create the perfect responses edited to be as humourous and cheeky and clever and sarcastic as possible (in our eyes) before hitting send.
We feel that we have right to put obnoxious hateful nasty comments believing as its our opinion we have the right to put them onlne.
We stew for hours because we read a comment and pile on our own insecurities, millions of words in a virtual world sending our hearts and minds in a twirl because we don’t see the individuals face as they type these words, and then when we edit a reply we no longer hold ourselves responsible for how the message is received at the other end.
So just pause for a moment and think, in this world where instant connection is a button press away why is the human race more disconnected now than ever before.
It used to be said we were all simply humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us and wealth classified us. But in this tech age the problem of disconnection is growing, it is impacting on families, friends, relationships and having a devastating effect on our communities.
So what is the answer, and before anyone says I understand the irony of writting this online etc. But maybe its as simple of getting together with friends in a local coffee shop and having a good old fashioned natter.
Stepping away from the keyboard and inviting loved ones around and hiding the tech for the night.
Saying good morning in the street when walking to work, starting to acknowledge those around you, slowing down a little and living in that moment. Get involved in local community groups.
There are so many possible answers all we can do is start to reconnect and enjoy human interaction once again and leave the binary code out of it. |
