It’s like we’re disconnected, locked in a room, not being able to talk to anyone. “I need to devirtualize. ” I read this recently in the post of a friend who did not refer to excess virtues, but to the virtual world, and like her, many others have complained about this addiction, curiously on the same day I wondered how serious my relationship with connectivity would be. Was.
We have become dependent on Facebook, WhatsApp and other social networks, I will not stay here to tell you how good it was to play in the street, etc. , etc. , etc. , I do not want to talk about what I already know, in a moment where socializing was not adding a new touch, but with a sweaty, shaking hand and waving looking into your eyes.
- Reflecting.
- Let me talk a little about it How do we know that someone was born.
- Died.
- Engaged.
- Ruined.
- Sick.
- Etc.
- ?People spoke.
- Heard the voice.
- The tone.
- Looked into the eyes.
- Took the hand.
- Hugged and felt the heat of the skin.
- Today everything is shown.
Do I get angry when I meet someone I haven’t seen in a long time and hear that their children are beautiful, how they grew up?I ask, “Have you seen them?” and the person responds? I saw a picture on Face, thank you very much. Worse, when they tell me? Here we go, I don’t see anything on Face anymore, don’t send a message by WhatsApp ?.
My real life goes on, people! Do you want to meet me? Call me, look at me, look into my eyes, come give me a hug, do not spy on my feelings based on Facebook posts, because I am always in the flesh, I am not a holographic image, my children are not, my life is not! it is!
However, I don’t make phone calls either, I don’t make visitors, I spend too much time watching landscape images instead of photographing myself, too long connected to the virtual world and disconnected from the real world. the one on the other side of the screen that sits in front of me every day for a coffee. Me and the rest of the world (or at least a large majority).
Social media has taken us out of solitude, opened doors for us, you can, I don’t know, date a guy from Japan like he was there next to you. The other day I was watching a movie and the girl was going to the movies, the father asked:
Who are you going with?With such and such. (Guy like this is the groom, now I forgot the name)?But the boy doesn’t live in Japan? (the country was also different, but it follows the reasoning) So she just showed her cell phone where she was on a video call with her boyfriend and made a grimace like who says?for God’s sake, Dad, what world do you live in?
And this is how we live today, often linked in the way it happens to those who are far away, and how many times with whom we have never physically seen, dividing our life, our routine, clinging to the fiber optics that connect us. The satellite makes everything work. Until it rains or it’s too windy, until the credits or battery run out and that fragile bond breaks, clearly demonstrating how addicted we are.
Yesterday, WhatsApp was unstable. I was one of those people who was a little perplexed. Quickly, people (and I) post complaints about disconnection on Facebook because it’s like we’re disconnected and locked in a room, grounded, not being able to talk to anyone.
In fact, technology only evolves every minute, and much better!How nice it is to be able to put the Japanese boyfriend in the routine, how nice it is to have thousands of friends sharing their moments even virtually, how cute it is not to be lonely. We believe that globalization means removing borders between countries and uniting in one language, physically speaking.
Globalization is that, it’s me getting a message from someone in Greece who has read my text and understands everything she says, because there’s something called Google Translate that makes us speak in one language. The borders between countries have been broken online, we are everywhere, with everyone, all the time. Thanks to the technology for that!
I’m not going to curse the technology that I’m writing, on the contrary, I have to thank you every day. You are here reading my dreams thanks to this connectivity. How many people have I virtually met who matter to me as if I were this childhood friend! How much good virtual reality has brought me! I don’t want to stop realizing that this vast and vast world can become a prison with 3G, 4G and WiFi, without bars, doors or windows, but from which we simply cannot get out.
Do I need to be devirtualized when I read the article? I said, “Me too. “I’m really looking forward to laughing, not looking like a landscape, writing “kkkkkk”. I look forward to feeling, embracing, truly embracing, showing pride, admiration, anger, desire, fear, joy, being a real person without emotions or characters that reflect how I feel I want to transform certain realities!
I don’t think we’ve learned to live in the real world anymore, we don’t even have time for that anymore. Where’s our time going?
I’m absolutely sure I want to change the real virtual world by yesterday. I want you to discourage me from reading all notifications that will accumulate during the time you are offline. I want to lose my mobile phone in a corner of the house because it will be totally consumable, because everything I need is in the real world, at the happy hour table, on the living room floor, when I prepare dinner in the kitchen, on the lawn of the park. he does not go to the head of the bed because he will no longer be the one who fills the void and silence of hours of insomnia or loneliness.
Maybe we’ll create electronics downtime, who knows?Maybe I’ll even open a recovery center for virtual addicts!As soon as I get debunped too!