If you want to reach me you can call, text, WhatsApp, dm on Twitter or Instagram and even catch me on FB messenger.
We’re more connected than ever with regard to the countless channels that are available. So how ironic is it that it seems like as a society we’re more alone than ever.
I think it’s something to do with technology being used to replace actually having face to face conversations. As much as technology can imitate and replicate person to person interaction as Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell once sang ‘ain’t nothing like the real thing baby’.
You can go on Twitter and see people interacting all day long but then they’ll tweet about feeling lonely.
I think online connections are great as a supplement but not a replacement. Perhaps we actually need the eye contact, the sound of someone’s voice, the pauses between speech and the sight of another living being.
The Daily Gemm 