When we had limited ways and means of getting in touch with our family and friends, we needed mobile and internet technology - mobile phones, Internet-Social media, instant messaging apps etc... and now that we have all of these, a lot of people dont like to use it. I'll come back to this point.
Also notice, we have matured up from hand written letters and telegrams to emails and instant messaging. Of which, writing emails are now primarily for official use, or for information exchange etc... The time has also changed from the beautiful hand made greeting cards to eCards; again, I wonder how many people are still sending eCards?
So, coming back to my point, I'm 100% sure we need the social media but there exists some complexity to use it... as its not easy (though not impossible) to mirror the complex brain settings of real social life in to our, say, FaceBook settings.
Earlier, since there was only limited ways, the "complexity" was not there at all. If you wanted to be in touch with someone, you would just land up at his/her doorstep... or drop in a letter, make a telephone call... And if one did not want to speak to someone - it was just simple ;)
Let me put it this way - we needed mobile phones, Internet-Social media, instant messaging apps and we still definitely need it; in fact we are blessed to have it - BUT we need it only for the near and dear ones. For the rest of the world, we still want it to be "limited ways and means of getting in touch" (may be).
At times, its an obligation - you JUST DONT have an EXCUSE for why you didnt wish someone on his/her birthday? There are just so many means to reach out to anyone - if you dont wish to talk, you can just send a gift online ;) isn't it?
So, in my opinion, internet and mobile connectivity has eliminated the EXCUSE factor which we still want in some cases. And I hope the next generation social-media will have the user-friendly brain-mirror technology.
Also notice, we have matured up from hand written letters and telegrams to emails and instant messaging. Of which, writing emails are now primarily for official use, or for information exchange etc... The time has also changed from the beautiful hand made greeting cards to eCards; again, I wonder how many people are still sending eCards?
So, coming back to my point, I'm 100% sure we need the social media but there exists some complexity to use it... as its not easy (though not impossible) to mirror the complex brain settings of real social life in to our, say, FaceBook settings.
Earlier, since there was only limited ways, the "complexity" was not there at all. If you wanted to be in touch with someone, you would just land up at his/her doorstep... or drop in a letter, make a telephone call... And if one did not want to speak to someone - it was just simple ;)
Let me put it this way - we needed mobile phones, Internet-Social media, instant messaging apps and we still definitely need it; in fact we are blessed to have it - BUT we need it only for the near and dear ones. For the rest of the world, we still want it to be "limited ways and means of getting in touch" (may be).
At times, its an obligation - you JUST DONT have an EXCUSE for why you didnt wish someone on his/her birthday? There are just so many means to reach out to anyone - if you dont wish to talk, you can just send a gift online ;) isn't it?
So, in my opinion, internet and mobile connectivity has eliminated the EXCUSE factor which we still want in some cases. And I hope the next generation social-media will have the user-friendly brain-mirror technology.
2 comments:
Very nice monu. Keep writing
Lini, I'm sure you can write better. Thanks for reading my post.
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