These are times of great innovation and cutting edge technology. Little there is needed to highlight the contribution of this innovation and technology to make our lives more comfortable and easier. Let’s look at communication for instance. The email technology, cell phone technology, messaging and texting, and probably there are many others that Iam missing. This has really helped us to establish and remain connected, which would have been considered a dream a few decades back.
But this post is not to highlight the advantages, infact to highlight the fact that everything that has advantages also has some disadvantages. To give you an example when I was a teenager in early 1990s, we had the disadvantage of not having a cell phone, or computer for emailing, and no other technology other than personal meetings and letters to be connected to friends and relatives elsewhere. But the advantage was whatever friends we were connected, we had a personalised touch, as there was no other option. These friends go a long way when we weigh them against true meaning of friendship. And I attribute mainly this to the personalised relationships we maintained, like spending time together, discussing common interests, playing together, everything that one could imagine.
However, I see a lot of youngsters these days have naturally developed a way of impersonalisation, as that is the norm. I guess what I am trying to say here is in case there has been an impersonalisation in relationships specially with friends and relatives, (which is obvious considering the number of friends one has these days), it may be a good idea to give way for some personalisation and value what we have, to make the best of it. One good way to start is to make more opportunities for personalised communications and connections.
Next post on music….keep reading.
But this post is not to highlight the advantages, infact to highlight the fact that everything that has advantages also has some disadvantages. To give you an example when I was a teenager in early 1990s, we had the disadvantage of not having a cell phone, or computer for emailing, and no other technology other than personal meetings and letters to be connected to friends and relatives elsewhere. But the advantage was whatever friends we were connected, we had a personalised touch, as there was no other option. These friends go a long way when we weigh them against true meaning of friendship. And I attribute mainly this to the personalised relationships we maintained, like spending time together, discussing common interests, playing together, everything that one could imagine.
However, I see a lot of youngsters these days have naturally developed a way of impersonalisation, as that is the norm. I guess what I am trying to say here is in case there has been an impersonalisation in relationships specially with friends and relatives, (which is obvious considering the number of friends one has these days), it may be a good idea to give way for some personalisation and value what we have, to make the best of it. One good way to start is to make more opportunities for personalised communications and connections.
Next post on music….keep reading.
2 comments:
What you say is true but the problem is no one "has the time to meet" which is essential for this personalisation just like this people are ready with many excuses. Another thing is that people like to spend little time with all their friends. This keeps them on the move as they have no more than 5 minutes with any friend, which again as u said results in impersonalisation
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