lejla1311
I am sitting and thinking how our lives have become so public. We share everything via social media, we have become ”slaves” of technology. Are we truly free nowadays with all of these computers, smartphones, smart watches and all these high tech gadgets? I think that we are not. I have a friend who doesn’t have facebook account and he can not be found on any social media. He has some old mobile phone just to write messages and call or receive calls. He is totally uninterested in this new technology. He once said: ”I don’t want to leave any mark online. Once you do that, there is no way you can erase it.” And he is so right!
Type your name online and you will be found immediately! Photos, posts, comments, blogs – all those things where you once left a comment or like, it is all there, stored somewhere on the grid. Can we erase that? Hardly. When people go out, everyone is staring at phones, only few people actually talk. As you can see, we are losing communication skills among ourselves. What will happen in some 50 years from now? People could possibly very alone, with no friends. Imagine being alone. That is not a very nice scene.
I have read about this facebook affaire few days ago, and I wonder do the world governments control us? Do they watch our every step, every money transaction, our trip locations, our homes? Or is that just some conspiracy theory? I believe that in every conspiracy theory there is a bit of truth.
What is the reason I wrote this post? I want you to open your eyes, to lower your activities on social medias, to talk more with the people who you go to restaurant with, to smile, to share your thoughts by talking and speaking out loud, not on twitter, facebook and all those other social media. Be free of technology and try to build quality relationships with your family and friends. Read a book, but an actual book, not on e-reader. Sing a song, using body deo spray as your microphone so that you can hear yourself. I am not saying that we should abandon all these high tech gadgets, just to lower down our activities with these things. Smile, laugh, cry, do sports, play with your kids – do everything that makes you happy! Don’t be a ”slave” to your smartphone or pc. Life is too short to be waisted on those artificial things.
Photo credit: Pixabay.com
In 2010, I had signed a contract to be a volunteer in Tajikistan. It was a medical mission and the country was quite isolated. Before I ride on an airplane, I left most of my modern gadgets to family members. I just bring with me a basic phone. I had lived in this country for a year without the modern gadgets. I may say it was survival moment and enjoyed to live in simplicity.
I absolutely agree. I sometimes think social media does more to disconnect us with friends and family than to connect us. There’s something wrong when people get together and they are all looking at their screens. We need human connection on a deep level. Social media is mostly small talk, with little heart to heart or deep sharing of what’s really on our minds. Social media also steals a lot of time we could be spending with family and friends — if we could get them off their screens.
You are absolutely right that social media dissconect us. We are losing the bond that makes us human and distincts us from animals.
your so right we’re NOT free by a LONG shot as long as we stay on the internet
or the gadgets that are sold every min of everyday, for a price they can’t refuse.
I put my name in google & it had EVERYTHING on line that I’ve been on & done.
I agree. We are less free. And some governments want to get rid of currency all together. The cashless society. Another way of monitoring what you spend and do. A lot of idiots think this is wonderful as an idea. Just like the bozos before who thought this technology is such a wonderful idea.
Very interesting perspective!