Tuesday, November 15, 2005

When People become Strangers

Why is it that so often in our city when a person is murdered in his house; the next door neighbours come to know about it three days later, that too because of the stench of death.
Are we moving towards total isolation?

In today's age of Chat, SMS and virtual gaming, we are losing touch with people in 'real time'.
Chat sure expresses everything but slowly but surely people are going to find real time communication difficult. Surveys have proved that people are increasingly becoming better at non face-to-face communication and avoiding real meetings.
Have you see the offices today? People are there much beyond their working hours. Yes many are really working but many are sitting in office, as they have nothing to do going back to their homes. They surf; they chat they read. Should they not be meeting real people?

People are increasingly using SMS to break up a relation!!!?? How can a relation..something so Real so full of emotions be broken by a text message. Are we scared of facing reality?

Kids are supposed to be playing outside in playgrounds and parks not sitting in front of a PC. Yes it does improve hand eye coordination, it improves logic but this is of no use at the cost of a healthy childhood.


One theory suggests that increased use of the Internet leads to loneliness. Today we are using the Internet so much that it can lead to psychological disorders.

It is said Man is a social animal. I hope we do not get into the trap of too much of technology that this statement becomes irrelevant.

2 comments:

Neel Arurkar said...

"but many are sitting in office, as they have nothing to do going back to their homes." : So true

Anonymous said...

I don't agree with you. There might have been a change in the mode of communication but definitely people do communicate. IM is a woderful example of how you are in constant touch with almost everybody. This comment that I'm writing itself is a mode of communication. So I would say that man has devised a whole lot of new ways of communicating and "Real Time" is not important as long as you are communicating in some way or the other..