Yes, new technologies have their positive side, that cannot be denied, but that does not mean that all their consequences are good, we exchange contacts face to face with SMS messages, and we cannot allow it: we need to see ourselves more and write less.
Today’s contacts are based more on WhatsApp conversations than on shared cups of coffee, a direct consequence is that these exchanges are neither as deep nor as rich as those established by drinking coffee, looking into each other’s eyes and hugging in one day cold.
- After all.
- Good communication is also established through a hug.
- And reserving time for the people we love shouldn’t be a big effort.
- If we don’t really have time.
- We may need to review our daily lives and our scale of priorities.
Taking care of you and your loved ones should not be at the bottom of a list, because the best conversations are not given through WhatsApp and because what really comforts us is seeing us more.
There are still few studies that analyze the impact of social media use (or abuse) on our psychological health and on the creation of stable and, why not, real social support networks.
What we are seeing, however, is that we have stopped looking each other in the eye to communicate something important, that interruptions are constant in shared times and that we no longer practice active listening.
Having a conversation via WhatsApp on an important topic causes participants to miss a lot of relevant information, we have lost data or reflections that would allow us to make a more accurate reading of the problem, in addition to improving the quality of the support we receive can offer others.
Through social media we get lost in appearances, half truths and forced impressions, diminishing the quality of relationships, we end up not knowing each other because we do not see each other, we cannot read the faces of our friends, we do not know their true feelings.
Although the communication is sincere, it will always be incomplete, this is another reason why we must see each other more and write less.
Moreover, this fact continues to have a devastating cumulative effect: little by little, we integrate these communication habits into our daily lives and, as a result, we are increasingly perceived in a more distorted way.
What used to be a communication option for everyone now makes us slaves, people have to react quickly. Not doing so can lead to enormous anger, an awkward discussion based on outrage and mistrust that confuses feelings.
FOMO syndrome alludes to the fear of losing something, this fear responds to the need generated to always be online, not to miss any update of what is happening on social networks.
This means that in the end, the lives of others are more interesting than their own and therefore more than real relationships. The consequences are disastrous for our mood, because we do not deal with our lives to cover the fictitious need to control. virtual environment.
The truth is that the need to always be connected and aware of what happens on the network limits us when it comes to enjoying the company of people in a real way.
The sad reality is that today, the smartphone is almost always present, which reduces the quality and warmth of relationships.
Therefore, we should consider it as a mandatory task to put the phone aside when we are with someone, and suggest assiduously that the contact is real, because, as we said above, the best conversations are not given through WhatsApp.
That’s why we need to see each other more and prevent social media from being our only means of contact, because it’s a channel through which information circulates, but complicity rarely follows it.