So we as a species are not actually communicating via the Web. In fact we are shouting into a wildness. After all, do people really read the posts on Facebook or LinkedIn?
Are you in fact wasting your precious time?
In fact is anyone reading this? Am I not being hypocritical, paradoxically criticising the use of the Web, when harnessing it now?!?!
I suppose the Web can be welcomed as a means of communication BUT not to the extent we are relying on it.
Like the child with the toy at Christmas we are gorging on our new found fun to the exclusion of life and all about us, mere white noise. But I suppose in time this will change as the Web beds in, people become fed up with it, and life with mankind typically goes full circle, which if history is anything to go by will happen, ie boredom of and sensible Web usage. Getting outdoors for a walk and chat for example.
55% of communication is NON-VERBAL
Please make note of this. I have.
This is what I’m doing.
I actively now call people on the phone each day.
Ideally I sit down with another person and engage in conversation. This grounds me.
Conversation attacks loneliness. Or even worse living in one’s head with my thoughts.
I make time for Claire my wife. I love her. She’s all I really have.
I avoid iPhone usage.
I avoid Social Medua usage.
I’ve come to the conclusion that most Social Media posts are a) not worthy of reading, b) driven by ego and narcissism, c) are possibly written by people I would run a mile from.
I’ve had a Facebook cull. Who in life are my friends, my buddies, those I share my life with?
I’ll soon have a LinkedIn cull.
A lot of posts that are written are complete shite and not written for the greater good. More about self and allowing people to indulge in and encourages voyerism, with writer and reader not looking at self.
We now see a detachment from self and from others. Painful content or thought provoking content is reduced to the banal. This cannot be right. How can we grow as a species if we cannot differentiate between serious and non-serious, important, non-important, tragic, beautiful.
All of this reminds me of one of my favourite quotes, which are the words of Sylvia Plath.
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Are you being limited by technology? Is it blocking you from all the shades, colours, emotions, feelings you could ever want to experience and share one to one with other human beings?
Are alive or trapped in a cycle of awake-phone-work-home-phone-bed-repeat?
It’s frightening isn’t it?