Mobile Connection!

We connect to other people with the use of our mobile gadgets. We text, call, and facetime the person we want to talk instantly. We even posts, tweets, and make IG stories of what we do, feel, thoughts, or anything we want as an update of our daily lives. Basically, we communicate with the use of technology that offers convenience and easy to use features that we like. Communicating and making connection has never been easy just by pressing a button, voila, you are connected to your loved ones. It is the reason why people prefer to have a conversation online than having conversation face to face. It is very easy in our generation because you can easily chat your friends and family but having a conversation face to face is more meaningful because we can show our real emotion to the person we are talking.

For you, what do you prefer? Online or Face to face in communicating to other people? Why?

Plugged in Life!

The creation of technology made our lives comfortable, easier, convenient, and can say better. Technology evolves and slowly taking over us. Why? Because we become dependent on what it can do to us. According to Sherry Turkle, we let technology takes us to places we do not want to go. It does not just change what we do, but change who we are I cannot disagree because it is true, nowadays, especially in our generation. The time we spend on using our gadgets are increasingly high that takes most of our time just by scrolling on the internet. We become used to using our little devices that even on the important events or things we do, we cannot stop ourselves not to used it. Just like how we use our mobile phones while our professor is discussing the lesson or even during meal time with the family we use our phones checking email and posting in social media. This is not just us youth who do this kind of thing but adults are also guilty. We cannot deny the fact that we all have been using technology to make us feel not alone but the reality is we are afraid of having a real conversation in the real world.

Conversation to Connection!

On one of the topics that Sherry Turkle discussed, she asked someone “What is wrong about conversation?”, the person replied, “It is because it happens in real time and you cannot control what you are saying.” Indeed, it is true that conversing face to face cannot be filtered nor be edited just to make it sound better and pleasant. On the other hand, when we text, email or post we can think about what we are going to say and filter out the things we think won’t be good. This kind of communication we are into makes us lose the essence of conversation - face to face conversation. As the technology evolves and develops, we gradually become comfortable to use it in everything that we do that leads to sacrificing the importance of conversing to other people. We distance ourselves to others but still communicate in a way that we feel comfortable by texting or sending emails. Conversation is different from communication in the sense of connection. In the way we communicate through social media or using our devices, we connect virtually but lack feelings and emotions. While conversation is a first hand experience of talking to one another and having the connectivity that we now forget what it feels. It is never too late to take the first step in going out of what we call the comfort zone of connecting to other people. Let us begin the conversation to ourselves and self reflect on what we really want to do. Within our family, start the conversation and rebuild the connection we must not lose.

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