Last weekend, my Mum and I had a Facetime. I did not remember what I said but the whole chat was no longer than 10 minutes, in the screen, obviously. I am not shy to express my feeling but I can find that my contact with those who I love and who loves me, are disappearing.
This might have happened to everyone as we are loosing patience to talk to people face to face. We hide our feeling behind the 5.7 inch screen and made it an excuse that it’s the developing of technology. A lot of studies in social media have done to point out that we are getting lazier than the time before internet. My respected writer Clay Shirky mentioned that the media and information explored to us have made human beings dump.
However, in the long history of human, there’s nothing we create that would in turn rule us. We invent, create to change our life in a better way, not ourselves. So I asked myself why we are surrender our control to the thing we created? One thing I’m quite sure is that our brain is used to get these fresh staff instead of looking back to what we have already owned. Just like our friendship.
I have at least 5 friends that I would risk my life to help but seldom contact. So last night I use the technology to express that I missed them though I’m feeling good. Next week I will use 2 days to visit a friend in Cleveland. No play, just talk, face to face.
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