The Unsocial Network
Doomed
This topic isn't new and it's not trending; Irony at its finest. But it is a topic that needs some serious light shedding. We've seen emotional nerve touching videos go viral around the world to make us realise, just how chained we are. And all in becoming "Social".
I'm no hypocrite, I know that I'm addicted to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and heck- even LinkedIn if it's a bloody slow day. But we're at a stage now that when I walk into a Starbucks (name drop) to get a coffee, I see a group of young teenagers, no older than 15 on average... attached to their mobile phones. And I'm just standing there with a smirk thinking: what's the point, you're with the group you'll grow up with yet the only conversing is an orchestra of the tipper tapper of digital keyboards that we've become so accustomed to that our mind doesn't even recognise it any more... And this has become our reality.
We're consumed by it. The social network has become such a normality that if you see someone off of their phone you give them An Award. Kids are actually getting bullied for not having smartphones to bury their face in to, for being more human, for not being a drone that's addicted to a device powered by iOS or Android... However, at some point you must consider the development of kids. Keep them locked into their screens too long and at some stage their life misses them, and they don't know how to react to normal humanity. That's not suspicion - it's common sense. You take someone away from reality and they live in fiction, then when they're confronted with reality - they can't do shit with it.
It's not all doom and gloom, I do appreciate what social networking has done for us in the civilisation and society we live in, and studies are beginning to show that kids are using their phones in more interactive ways; sharing and laughing with their friends in the real world.
What I think needs to be done, is a lot less spent time face first in a device, and lot more time out there living your life.
As Ferris Bueller once said "Life goes pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while - you might miss it..."
Read - Watch - Share
Alex Yagoub
This topic isn't new and it's not trending; Irony at its finest. But it is a topic that needs some serious light shedding. We've seen emotional nerve touching videos go viral around the world to make us realise, just how chained we are. And all in becoming "Social".
 |
| CHAINED |
 |
| CONSUMED |
It's not all doom and gloom, I do appreciate what social networking has done for us in the civilisation and society we live in, and studies are beginning to show that kids are using their phones in more interactive ways; sharing and laughing with their friends in the real world.
What I think needs to be done, is a lot less spent time face first in a device, and lot more time out there living your life.
As Ferris Bueller once said "Life goes pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while - you might miss it..."
Read - Watch - Share
Alex Yagoub
Comments
Post a Comment