Social Media Killing Relationships and emotional bonding with friends and family. The time is gone when you would step out of your house just to meet up with friends. Not just meet up with them but also to share what is happening in your life or theirs. Get to know what is happening in the vicinity. Having long chats, going out for a small snack, taking a walk etc. All these things have now slowly become things of the past. Social Media is changing the way of life.
With the emergence of Smartphones and applications on them that provide you almost anything under the sun. Meeting actual people and not their virtual internet identities are slowly diminishing with the generations to come. Earlier you could see groups of youngsters having fun amongst themselves in every nook and corner. Old uncles and Aunties also sitting in their respective groups and having fun in their good old ways.
Social media apps are more preferred then personal bonding these days
Nowadays you still get to see people in groups outside their houses. But there is a vast difference. All of them will have one thing in common all of them will be engaged with their cell phones. You don’t need to meet a person nowadays to know what he is up to or what is going on in his or her life. You simply look up the persons Social Media pages and will get to know all about them.
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Life has taken a drastic change because everyone is on the Social Media Bandwagon irrespective of age caste or creed. It is actually the only thing that has unified people across the globe. It was difficult earlier to know what one person was feeling at a certain point in time. People use to hardly express what they feel even to their near and dear. Now people let the whole world know what they are feeling through Social Media.
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There are two common kinds of people in society one who is talkative and one who is silent and receptive. The same exists in the social media space as well. People who give a minute by minute update on what they are doing with their day to day life. And there is the other who does not say anything but reads all about what is going around in another one’s life.
Remembering birthdays too has become a thing of the past. Social media reminds others of one’s birthday. The person is then flooded with birthday wishes from even people whom the person is hardly in touch with or for that matter if the person even cares for. The once a year Phone call that has such a personal touch is slowly going obsolete. With people just leaving a message or a greeting via social media.
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While social media connects you to other people that are seven seas apart. It disconnects you with people who are living just a wall apart. You rather chat with a person who is far away than the person who is sitting right next to you. It is not intentional what you are doing but that is what this medium makes you do.
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Traditionally to Socialize there were Clubs that were formed. The Ideology was for like-minded people to come together and mingle with each other. This has now been replaced in the Social Media Space with groups. You simply join a group and start mingling with the members of the group. You don’t have to move your body an inch. Except for your fingers that will do the talking for you.
Where is this all leading to no one can predict but it does not seem for now to be a healthy trend? One thing is for sure something that still brings people together and out of the online space is Food and Wine. That is something, fortunately, the Social Media can’t take away from us. We all need to eat and drink. And when we do it together it just gets merrier.
