Technology

Does social media really connect us? Or does it do just the opposite?

I myself have loss touch with humanity. Staring into a little screen for over half of my day. Worrying about my battery life, if I missed a call, a text, a notification of any sort. How many likes did I get on the picture I posted earlier.. or did anyone comment  on my post? Someone give me attention. Isn’t that what I want? My friend list seems to have more acquaintances than real friends. Who are these people? How many people do I truly talk to? Hang out with? Actually know… Rather than what they post about on social media. We all can live a lie, post a lie, caption a lie.

Social media makes it easier. Makes it easier to fake, and mask just how we are doing deep down. Our phones are taking away from special moments in life. Incredible moments!

It’s time. It’s time to put down our phones, laptops, iPads, and everything & anything that is distracting you from this given moment in time.

We are ALL DISTRACTED.

Walking down streets filled with people, and filled with emotion. Yet alone, very alone. Half of the time we don’t even realize these emotions, or these people. We don’t glance up from the little screens we stare into. Zombies. We walk by these humans, these faces, these incredible people that could be striving for that connection, that interaction.. the eye contact… The touch. That we all have been wanting, that most of us are searching for. We have all of these opportunities RIGHT in from of us, but none of us reach out and take them. We are strangers. Are we too busy looking at a little screen to realize it?

Look left, look right. People are spread out across your eyes, but you still glance down at technology. Why not engage in a conversation?!

Make eye contact with another individual, and smile. I dare you not to ignore them.

How can you ignore one another at a bus stop. In line for coffee, food, groceries. When out with a group of friends most of us would rather stare at a screen instead of engage in a conversation. What have we become. This is not humanity.