Once a man wielding a spear, goes hunting for food and heads back with the dinner into the cave for the family.
Those were the days I guess. Now? Technology and Internet. It's all smart devices sticking to our face, with people heading to work where some stick their face, again, to computers and when to be non-productive, smartphones or social network will replace the computers.
I would admit I myself is a victim. Every time it happens, and for I who normally sees the bigger picture of most things, would see and think about the problems and issues that technology has given man.
Of course, when used correctly, it isn't so much of a problem. But the fact that technology has been misused by majority creates the controversy.
Social media is the source for people to use Internet. However, too much of it feeds us all the wrong information. The main purpose of social media was to actually 'connect' people from all over the world but instead because of marketing and business behind it, the main purpose has been boxed up. Creating the fame and spotlight to let people use it more often creates the revenue of that company. That's where people behind these will wear a smile to their faces. Yes, it's always about money.
As more people are 'connected', social media creates syndromes where people starts to become addicted to 'likes' because that portrays how humans are hungry for fame, or how one is trying to let oneself 'known' to the rest of the world. But little do they know that all these 'fame' or 'connectedness' are short lived. That's how our brain process it - instant gratification, feel good one minute, gone the next. And also the same for 'know' that one minute, forget it the next.
Humans are never made to multitask. Ladies (no gender discrimination here) always tell, yes tell themselves they can multitask and obviously that is because they heard it from someone else and being easily influenced by nature, simply believes it. So here's what they do on the street - opens up a video, watch it and walk. Watching and walking, that's multitask. So then they disregard all that's around them, including danger. So much I seen that all these people just cross a zebra crossing or traffic junction or walking anywhere (no danger, but looks really like an ass or retard) with their eyes planted to the phones. Well for sure if it's not a video, then it's the instant messaging that they care about. Oh certainly, not just ladies but men does that too only less I've seen. It's people like these that just makes me wish the world could perish.
Then there's those dating website or network. By nature, men are the hunter/predator and women are the prey. They uses these network and so the women, who obviously are wired to always make themselves looks pretty or always go for the best in looks will then post their 'pretty' faces. The men, being hungry and 'anonymous' will post all sorts of flirty and dirty stuff to get the girl, till the point where women have way higher defensive stance than they should have. One word for the result - imbalance.
Oh back to more specific technology, sometimes I wonder people kept using their phones is it because of the purpose of connecting and to send messages or is it because of psychological problem? I would say it's more of the latter and little of the former. You see, what did we use on our devices these days? Touch, yes touch. Humans crave for these warmth and the so called connection. If there isn't someone close around to feel that 'warmth' or 'connection', our touch devices will take in place of it. It's constant, it's in our hands to control that feeling and that's why even in a group, people could still end up using their devices. Basically saying 'touching the device makes us feels connected.' Such virtual feeling. I could see many people, sometimes myself, wake the device, does some swiping of the home screen on the device for the sake of swiping then press the power button.
Really, sometimes I wish I could send out a message to the whole world about what they are doing but I believe that's impossible and it's delusional for which obviously almost everyone, by now, has been influenced by the 'YOLO', 'be yourself' kind of mindset.
