It is true. I can see how technology and social media has created a gap among people who live in the same house. I am currently in my 30s and live with my parents to give you some context. For the past few years, social media apps like Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram has taken up a prime part of my parents' attention. My dad is in his 60s and mom in her 50s. They use these apps more than I do.
A while ago, I went to the living room and asked my Mom "So what did your uncle say?". She had come back from a short visit at her uncle's place so I was curious to know what they had discussed. What I was expecting is a whole rundown of all the conversations, but what I got was a short one-liner. I probed more, to which again I got another one-liner. Disappointed, I left the room and went back to my continue my office work.
I couldn't concentrate on my work. I was thinking how did my mother's generation start giving such short and crisp responses. A while later, her phone rang and it was her sister , that is my aunt. On the phone, the main topic of discussion was the discussion that my mom had at her uncle's place. The phone call lasted 40 minutes.
I was heard the entire discussion from my room and thought how technology has helped connect people who are geographically disconnected. However, the long term effect seems to be an emptiness in the relationship for people who live together under the same roof.
Look at me, I am writing what I feel on a blog and telling the entire world instead of going to the other room and telling this to my parents. Isn't it funny !!
Technology has enabled so many new things and in the process, inadvertently disabled some other things with respect to human relationships.
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