Today, I had a harsh realization about my generation..the more and more we advance in one thing, the more and more retarded we get in another. I get this because exactly a week ago, one of my roommates called me out and posed the challenge of neither of us using facebook for one week, seven days. I just ended the seven day fast and within the last two minutes of it ending I really realized how dependent on it. In those last two minutes, I felt an excitement that my online social entourage would be reunited in just a matter of a couple minutes.
I couldn't help but feel a pit in my stomach because of the excitement that arose inside of me. How socially immature and dependent do we have to be that we get excited to look at pictures, write on someone's cyber-wall, or chat with them when they're just a floor above you or a building over? Because this is more convenient. The conveniency of social networks such as facebook has morphed the way we go about our relationships with people. Interpersonal communication has taken a big step backwards. I realized how much I had stepped back. It puts a pit in my stomach. My generation is a generation that's the one that should be making some of the most astounding advancements..instead we're making our social abilities degenerative towards each other.
I hate to think about how socially impaired my children and grandchildren will be if the advancement of our sociality keeps at this rate..
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