Technology is replacing human contact.
Do you remember the times when there were no cell phones? Do you remember having a pager? Or when is the last time you have seen a pay phone? Does your grandma have a hard time using her cell phone or does she even have one? Let's talk about how technology is changing the way we interact.
Love it or hate it it's happening!
Life's about changing nothing ever stays the same. Do we resist it or do we try for a while and then give in. Has it just about been forced upon us? I remember not wanting to have a Facebook account, I had MySpace and I thought that was good enough. But then I had a child and I wanted to share the pictures of her with my family that lived hundreds of miles away. So I caved in and set up an account. It became addicting to share my photos with my close network of people to see that they loved my pictures since of course I loved them too since they were mostly of my newborn baby. Now 8 years later I'm on several social media platforms posting my life for all to see. I crave the interactions of others and thats a normal human emotion not just normal but key to our survival. But has it taken over? Has it replaced actual human interaction? For some it might have, for me I find it a great tool to not only keeping my network of people at the top of my mind so I can invite them to social events. It's a great way to connect to people not only in your current network of friends but your past as well. Now I find my self involved in several social networking channels, Linked-In, Instagram, Snapchat, You Tube and a few more I probably don't even remember I'm a part of. Yes it's fun to share our lives and have an avenue to voice ones options and even get recommendations but are we slowly loosing the ability to social interact with others face to face? For instance just take a minute to recognize the loss of several big chain stores, remember Circuit City and soon to be a memory Toys R Us? Do you remember when there wasn't a self check out lane in your grocery store or Target? Give us an inch and we take a mile. We are trading in actual human contact for technology. Why?
For one it's faster and I'm sure there are several more reasons behind it, but what do you think our world will be like in 20 years from now? I mean how many of you actually had a cell phone 20 years ago? I'm pretty sure not many of you. Well how did you even function? I barley remember my self. But i'm pretty sure I had to write you phone number down and actually call you. So now just because i'm recognizing all these advances in technology dosent mean i'm against them. I actually love most of it, but I am a bit forward thinking and feel like I might have a conc
ern for the future. How will we full of human need for face to face interaction if we eliminate a huge portion of it? What do you think or children will be lacking in the future that some of us might possess. Is this going to be an easy transition or can things get out of control? I for one don't have the answers for you, sorry if you were reading all the way to the end for an awesome conclusion.
But what I do feel is that we can not cut out human interaction completely it just dosent seem like a good idea. So I'm going to recommend you make time for the small pleasantries in life, smile at someone if that's all you got, say hello to someone if you can and just strike up a conversation with someone if you can find the courage too. I'm pretty sure more than half of the people y try this on will reciprocate and just maybe you will make their day.
Or better yet enhance someones life just by an exchange of conversation or pleasantries. We crave human interaction and we need it for survival so please make an effort to keep it in our social networking ways. Then feel free to post and share it on social media make a fun hash tag like #reconnect #socialbeings #letsbehuman #bringbackconversation #talktosomeonebehindyou or share one with us you like so we can reach all the ones we might have lost in the technology trance. So give it a try, it won't hurt.
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