Cell-fish! Texting the Death of conversation.

Cataclysmic changes are taking place all around us and it effects children, marriage and our homes. We text when we should be talking and are forever hooked on to the network 24/7. Control and convenience, enables you to unfriend when you want in the cozy comfort of the internet. Our behavior is changing and becoming maddeningly intractable and cell-fish. The convenience of blocking or going offline etc has changed the way we deal with relationships in our real life. Like life’s illusion, the internet world with its many virtual friends, with whom we exchange intimate details, makes us think we have an active social life. But this a fallacy as it is devoid of depth and real bonds and in the process, real family time disappears. We don’t read or discuss anymore, conversations don’t happen, sports and games are neglected and even memories of good old days fade out.Have we pondered on the impact of technology in our lives?

We are growing up in a culture of distraction and we don’t look up from our face book screen when parent’s friends or relatives walk into our homes. On the positive side connectivity helps you deal with the difficulties of separation and you are not cut off as the generations before us. You can now message, text, speak or Skype, from anywhere in the world. People are confused of intimacy and solitude. We are in a tenuous complicity with strangers as we assiduously build up a following yet not knowing to what degree our followers are our real friends. We spend hours befriending strangers on face book, but are too busy for our kith and kin who are there in the real world.
Those who are insecure in life, find it great when they get so much attention in their little lives. Changes can be hard while some are easy, , but to change our behavior we have to change the situation. Today we measure our success by the number of mobile communication gizmos,Face-book friends, group’s, emails and posts, contacts and texts replied.

People are worried of being cut out off from the grid and loss of a cell phone is like someone has died. We need instantaneous response and gratification. Herein lies the greatest paradox in our complex world, instant communications has reduced our time to sit and think uninterrupted about life’s problems.

We are trying to customize our wants like a smoker who keeps smoking away but find it difficult to switch or change the situations, not just the environment but in our hearts and minds. Like drug addicts in rehab afterwards we are hooked on to the network and tethered like cows.