Social Networking, one of the greatest ideas to ever come about, but with our minds constantly focusing on our online life, do we abandon the life we are actually living?
Every day we are provided with chances to meet new people. New faces and experiences are around every corner but with our faces buried in our phones, we tend to pass them by. Every one of us does it; we avoid eye-contact, keeping our concentration on the screen to keep connected with our online life. Social networking was meant to keep people social but instead seems to have made our generation reserved and shy.
Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr; all out there to keep people connected, enable us to share our ideas with the world, but what ends up happening is we live behind a screen. You can make up anything you want about yourself on the internet. You can grow a foot or lose 20 pounds without ever leaving the comfort of your home, so is it possible to really get to know someone? When talking face-to-face it’s a little harder to hide who you really are, so you tend to get to know people better. That being said, can you really make deep connections with someone on the internet?
It seems nowadays that people resort to typing their feelings rather than having actual, in person conversations, and even though we have our clever ways to express emotions like all-caps, emoticons and exclamation marks; feelings can still be misconstrued by the readers mind. How you feel about someone, your opinions on things, and your mood, all of these things can be incorrectly viewed when using text instead of having a conversation.  Then again, the way the world is today people assume they can just click ‘delete’ and act like it never happened.
The online world seems to have found a way to provide us with everything we need. You can find friendships, entertainment and even the ability to buy groceries just by logging on to your computer. Even though this shows amazing progress in our technology we seem to have unintentionally created lesser need for human contact. The online world is great, not to mention addicting, but I think sometimes we need to all step back and look at what’s really important.