My Daily #ulog Post: Social Media Vs. Life: How does Social Media Affects Our Lives
Good day steemians. Are we all okay?I hope so. Let me share to you my #ulog post for today. It is all about technology, social media and life.
While browsing in my other social media account, I observe that most of us discuss different kinds of issue through posting. Family, work and lovelife thats only a sort of what we can find in different kinds of social media. And it pop up to my mind, why we keep on discussing such things when we can do it personally? Technology has been become part of our daily life but there are also things we missed because of technology.
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We convince ourself technology is helping. The reality is, people don't seem enough for us these days. We condense books into articles, into list, onto gif because who has time to read an actual sentence anymore? We scroll, click and double tap our lives away wondering where the day goes. We're more anxious than any generation before, yet we keep downloading another app hoping it that could fix us. We look to the latest trends, reviews and hashtags yet in a world with so much information we're somehow still missing the wisdom of life. We are fond of using technology to make our lives so easy but we miss the true meaning of life.
We crave personal connection but we'd rather text about hard conversation. We desire relationships but settle for following each other in Twitter. We stare pretty pictures on Instagram instead of the person standing right infront of us. We prefer filtered images to reality. We check social media more than we check in with our friends. In our constant need for new information, new insight, we lose the chance to make old memories.
We like being busy , we wear it like badge of honor. We cant focus because we're being pulled in different directions. We can't commit because they're always seems to be another option, a better alternative. We have trust issues with the people we've know for years, yet we trust someone's review that we just saw on social media. We easily get convinced by the things published in social media wherein most of those are lies and filtered.
We are with our love ones while still holding onto our phone. We scroll through social media while having lunch with our frieds. We think we can keep one foot out the door while still falling for the person sitting infront of us. We always need the latest, the newest, and the most up to date and then wonder why relationship don't last. We walk around on social media during work because life without multitasking feels insufficient. We prefer watching series of the latest show because someone's story drowns out the experience of our own.
We complain that nothing feels real anymore but we dont give anything time to become real. We complain nothing has depth but we dont allow thing's space to deepen. We complain nothing feels authentic today, we select new filters on our selfies. We recharge our devices but not ourselves. When we're out of our time we just add more to our schedules. We don't know who we want to become because we're too distracted by who everyone else is becoming.
How many times has anyone ever said to you I want your time? Whenever you hear that, know this truth. What people really want is your energy, your presence, your affection and your attention. Imagine if you gave someone an hour of your time but the whole time you were completely distracted on your phone. Versus if you gave someone 10 minutes of your complete energy and time without the distraction of any devices. For sure they will choose the second option because what people really want is your energy, what we are really searching for is attention, what we really looking for is presence and affection.
So what we really need to do is give people our energy,presence and affection not just our mere time. Take a moment, take time to reflect, take a step back. Who are the people that make you forget to look on your phone? Spend time with them. Starve your distraction and feed your focus. You can't do the big things if you're always distracted by small ones.
That's it for today. Till my next #ulog post steemians.
Thak you for reading and God bless.
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