Weekend-Engagement 198/ Living inside the screen
Happy weekend hivers. One more time @galenkp shared some interesting topics to write about. I chose to write about the following topic:
Do you feel society is spiraling out of control and if so why? Explain with examples. Remember to use your own photos.
LIVING INSIDE THE SCREEN
I often have the feeling that time is passing faster and faster. We live in a world that has changed radically in just a few decades. When I grew up, society was not very different from the society in which my parents had grown up. They thought that the key to well-being was to study, to be trained in a profession in order to have a good future.
In a very short time our world became completely informatized, it became part of the World Wide Web. Initially we searched there for information or we communicated by mail, today institutions of all kinds force us to make any management through the Internet: if we want to get our identity card or our passport we have to do it online, if we need a medical appointment we have to do it online or by WhatsApp, if we want to read the news we have to do it online, if we want to make a job appointment, if we want to offer any product or service, if we want to watch a movie or series that we like. Now we even fall in love online! This seems crazy to me. Our whole life has been put inside a screen! There is no choice.
What I am beginning to find worrying is the large number of people who cannot live without being connected to a cell phone, and this includes me! For professional reasons I am connected every day and for much of the day to my cell phone and computer. To write, to communicate, to advertise my courses and services, to give and receive courses, to carry out all kinds of formalities. But also, and I am aware of this, I can spend a good part of my time on social networks viewing content, viewing images, leaving comments. Do I really need to do this? And I feel anxiety when I am disconnected for a long time.
Today when I went out to a shopping mall with my friend Maria Luisa to have an ice cream together and talk, I took my cell phone and started taking pictures of several people I saw glued to their cell phones, as if hypnotized by the screen. They were not talking to each other, they were looking at their phones. I think this is not right. Some of them were walking, but they couldn't let go of their phone. What is wrong with today's society? I insist, this is crazy. What do you think? Do you also need to be glued to your cell phone for a large part of your time? That's called addiction. It seems that like in some old movies we have been dominated by computers. Because one thing is to use electronic devices to make some tasks easier and another thing is that we have to be glued to these devices a good part of our time.
I am a Spanish speaker and have used deepl.com to translate this text into English.
All the pictures you see were taken with my cell phone camera.
0
0
0.000
Thank you for your support. 🙂👍
Hello, almost since we are born, and I mean the new generations we have a cell phone in our hands, we have replaced the language of parents by this device. So what values are received from the family and schools. Very good reflection.
Thank you, 🤗🥰
Yes, that's right, thank you for reading and for your comment @mamani
😇😘
As the years have gone by and with the advancement of technology, human beings have discovered that they can keep up with the times. As you mentioned, there are infinite reasons to connect to the screen. Studies, professional, fun, but above all we are connected because we have the power to communicate.
Our circle of friends has grown and those family members who live in other latitudes have become close. This is a wonderful thing. Many will think it is aberrant, but it is the same as when we used to use the telephone with cable or the same television. How many times when we were children we were told to get away from the screen or to leave the phone.? It is communication and the human being cannot be without it.
Excellent your participation dear Beatriz (@beaescribe).
Love.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Dear @germanandradeg The problem is not the technology itself, the problem is that this form of global communication and information has made us addicted. We cannot detach ourselves. That's why I shared the photos. Look at the young man who is walking and can't see where he is going because he is glued to his phone. The people sitting down who are not talking to each other, they are glued to the phone.