the internet is choking our social lives more and more everyday!!!

Today I realised the influence the internet has on our lives. It has changed us from socialising in physical presence to now cyber relationships which we are promoting more than seeing a person face to face. This is sad.......

After watching Surrogates by Ben Stiller I reflected on how we live today. There is no reason to believe that we will not end up like the people in the movie. Obviously taking away some of the fiction in the movie. To a certain extent we shall look for a way for us to do less work and stay at home and sleep or whatever we will do. Shockingly some parents are now saying contact sports are not suitable for young kids. Seriously? What? are you crazy! You want to take away the few things kids have left that dont involve some sort of electronic technology. If we kill off socialising at that age, what will happen to them when it is time for university. They wont know how to socialise and hence become angry when they are left out of activities. In the end we are breeding people who could become like the Columbine killers. oh i forgot by then everyone could be learning from home, working from home and living life at home. Aint that a thought.

A lot of people also try cyber dating. It is something i will never try for the following reasons: 1. You only learn a certain side to someone because he/she is sitting behind a screen so he/she can alter his/her responses. 2.I am not willing to risk talking to someone i cannot see. there are too many cyber attacks that take place. 3. How do you really know the person is faithful and has your interests at heart? cyber love and cyber friendship are taking over at the expense of our real relationships which have more intimacy. cyber relationships are creating a fake personality in people that they will not show in person. For some people they dont even post a real pic of themselves. It is also easy to play a role that you always wish to play but is not something about you. Why risk all these things?

Because of sites like facebook you can know a stranger more than people in your own house. e.g u get status updates about the person's activities, some will even put their emotions, you can chat as you are doing something else, people are more willing to reveal things to someone they cannot see so you tell each other things you might not tell your friends. That is sad. at some point we wont even make real efforts to maintain real friendship. I hope we can take a step back and fix things. I'm an active and adventurous person. I dont like the way my social life is dying in the hands of technology. Well, i will do my best to stop, but will u?

til we meet again

g-flexxx signing out...................