Its truly sad when our love affair with reality tv has turned majority of the population into emotional bulimics who only feel complete when they are spewing out something overly personal and dramatic.. face to face intimacies and meaningful conversations have been replaced by facebook postings, texts, and tweets about who is drunk, who is nursing a broken heart and who is just generally bored with their life.. I feel as if technology, although advancing rapidly, is actually depleating from the overall quality of life we live. Its creating this effortless lifestyle where everything comes easy, from money to sex and everything inbetween. We now have the ability to live our entire life from our computers if we choose. Groceries, entertainment, books, movies, education and even our jobs are now available over the internet. What ever happened to effort?
We, as people, are constantly waiting for the “next best thing”. Never are we content with what we have because someone else in the world has something better. We are over thriving for living out of our means. Technology is supposed to develop us as a human race, advancing us into a new world. Sure, it is creating change, but not for the better. Its created this idea of everything being fast-paced and “instant”. Its come to the point where if you do not reply to a person’s text message in a 20 minute radius you are ignoring them or have a problem with them.
The virtual world allows this lifestyle where you no longer have to develop yourself as a person essentially, you can post anything on your facebook to manipulate what people actually believe is who you are. Social media fronts are now how you generate attention for yourself instead of actually living the life you have imagined. Before this technology outbreak, athletes in highschool became athletes from actually running and competing. Now? you can fabricate a whole persona over the internet and that is who you are. There is no true reality anymore. Stuck in a generation where you can catch up on your local news by reading a facebook newsfeed, we have no essence of actually “living”. From gathered thoughts of my parents, during their time if you wanted to experience life, you got out of your house and experienced it. You had one telephone, at your house, and that was it. Any guy who liked a girl had to find out what party she was going to that night and spark up a meaningful conversation, not text her “what doing tonight?” ” come over and watch a movie”. Love had more meaning than that and I use the word love openly. Relationships in this day and age are all about who has money and the best looks. Value and morals are going out the window. Woman laugh off the idea of being called a “slut” or a “whore” because every other girl gets called that every other day. Ostentatious remarks and having a trophy attitude about how many people you have slept with become the sole entity of ones day to day life. Classiness is non-existant, “players” are in the limelight, and people have become genuinly okay with being fake because they have the comfort in knowing everyone else is on the same page.
Its rare to find someone who will actually try to make things work with another person, rather then runaway at the first sign of imperfection. On to the next because there are so many other people you can meet just by logging onto the internet… right? Nobody is considered special to anybody else anymore, we are now incorporated in a world where putting yourself out there for another person is considered a tradegy. Every man for himself. Is it just me that feels this way? I vote getting back to keeping things personal, and keeping face to face intellectual conversations a reality.
