Social Media : A barrier
Aman Gada
English 2010
Social Networking: A Barrier There was once a time, when humans, like ourselves, interacted with each other face to face with a god given gift called the mouth. This interaction was a type of excuse to meet one another to share anything extraordinary from an ordinary day. As the world grew bigger our curiosity to explore new mysteries grew as well, which led to the increase in distance. Eventually, the one’s that we wanted to talk to became difficult and that’s how we started writing letters. As the world’s technology grew, so did our impatience, we did not want to wait for 10 days for a mail, which led to the invention of texting and emails. Time did not fly so fast, but this is what the world had started turning into, in the past 20 years. We were once entitled to interacting with another person, but now we may be interacting with someone whom we’ve never even seen or met. The world of technology has rapidly taken over lives, and we live around it ready to change as technology changes. We have become so dependent on technology that our lives depend on technology to survive. We can easily talk to our friends and family who live far away from us in a second, it could be through emails, text, social networking sites, or even by the various applications available in our phones. Not that it is a bad thing, but this addiction of not communicating face to face has a downfall to human interaction. With the growing status of life things have sped up, hence we try to save time by quickly texting instead of dialing a number and making a call or to meet face to face. Instead of using our mouths we are now using our fingers to make words and interact with others. We as a society believe that we are saving time so that we can move on and quickly interact with the next person. Where has the time gone when we used take the time out from our busy schedule to meet someone and see how they are doing in life? It has become simple now and takes even less
English 2010
Social Networking: A Barrier There was once a time, when humans, like ourselves, interacted with each other face to face with a god given gift called the mouth. This interaction was a type of excuse to meet one another to share anything extraordinary from an ordinary day. As the world grew bigger our curiosity to explore new mysteries grew as well, which led to the increase in distance. Eventually, the one’s that we wanted to talk to became difficult and that’s how we started writing letters. As the world’s technology grew, so did our impatience, we did not want to wait for 10 days for a mail, which led to the invention of texting and emails. Time did not fly so fast, but this is what the world had started turning into, in the past 20 years. We were once entitled to interacting with another person, but now we may be interacting with someone whom we’ve never even seen or met. The world of technology has rapidly taken over lives, and we live around it ready to change as technology changes. We have become so dependent on technology that our lives depend on technology to survive. We can easily talk to our friends and family who live far away from us in a second, it could be through emails, text, social networking sites, or even by the various applications available in our phones. Not that it is a bad thing, but this addiction of not communicating face to face has a downfall to human interaction. With the growing status of life things have sped up, hence we try to save time by quickly texting instead of dialing a number and making a call or to meet face to face. Instead of using our mouths we are now using our fingers to make words and interact with others. We as a society believe that we are saving time so that we can move on and quickly interact with the next person. Where has the time gone when we used take the time out from our busy schedule to meet someone and see how they are doing in life? It has become simple now and takes even less