The world is a big place with exotic distant destinations, expensive experiences, enviable millionaires, celebrities and fantastic ambitions and all things that keep us busy planning to be successful. The social network is always willing to publish our autobiographies, update by update, in real-time if we choose to. We may enter and exit from relationships freely as we log in and out of the old chat rooms leaving the relic of our savvy choices as a symbol of our class and liberal thought. The camera we hold is only to please our social fans with cute poses and has long ceased to be the device that captured memories worth cherishing much later. Instant admiration of an ever growing list of stranger-friends who know little more about us than we are sex deprived/psychic/rich/ostensible/stupid/reckless have become the most important almost over-night.
This is the world in the 2010s, here social networks means everything.
So what has it done to us?
We no longer truly miss loved ones because the moment we do we instantly beam our feelings, through satellites operated by tech giants, as tweets/message/call or worse video chat. Of course, only to realize later you were on drugs before satelliting the sentimental sham. Not detesting the fruits of technological progress that has helped fight anxiety caused by ignorance about a distant dwelling dear one, but just complaining about the annoying level of empowerment that keeps us perpetually disturbed with our memories engrossed in an artificially interested virtual social network, much like landing on the seeds while digging with all teeth into the pulp.
It's likely the reason why contemporary relationships are shorter and too frequent, than they were in earlier generations, if that's the case at all; perhaps our little brains need to miss a person to know it loves that, and where opportunity is denied to experience this crucial feeling we escape love itself. Might I say love escapes us! Weather there's truth at all to this theory, it's important to sometimes miss people- not to rid them deliberately in a fair, that would be unfair to the theory- to trigger those special feelings that are otherwise never felt.
If it is only an obsession that's keeping you locked up with your virtual world, perhaps it might be able to combat it with another obsession. The obsession to live life to lees, where we run into life and newer experiences without feeling the obligation to report every little frame of it to our ever opinionated/flattery pals online. Hopefully we wouldn't have to change our relationship status back to being single again, and not mind about the millionaires, celebs, exotic destinations and our failures !!
This is the world in the 2010s, here social networks means everything.
So what has it done to us?
We no longer truly miss loved ones because the moment we do we instantly beam our feelings, through satellites operated by tech giants, as tweets/message/call or worse video chat. Of course, only to realize later you were on drugs before satelliting the sentimental sham. Not detesting the fruits of technological progress that has helped fight anxiety caused by ignorance about a distant dwelling dear one, but just complaining about the annoying level of empowerment that keeps us perpetually disturbed with our memories engrossed in an artificially interested virtual social network, much like landing on the seeds while digging with all teeth into the pulp.
It's likely the reason why contemporary relationships are shorter and too frequent, than they were in earlier generations, if that's the case at all; perhaps our little brains need to miss a person to know it loves that, and where opportunity is denied to experience this crucial feeling we escape love itself. Might I say love escapes us! Weather there's truth at all to this theory, it's important to sometimes miss people- not to rid them deliberately in a fair, that would be unfair to the theory- to trigger those special feelings that are otherwise never felt.
If it is only an obsession that's keeping you locked up with your virtual world, perhaps it might be able to combat it with another obsession. The obsession to live life to lees, where we run into life and newer experiences without feeling the obligation to report every little frame of it to our ever opinionated/flattery pals online. Hopefully we wouldn't have to change our relationship status back to being single again, and not mind about the millionaires, celebs, exotic destinations and our failures !!
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