So each day I walk past a small office with a young individual staring at a computer. The funny thing is no matter what part of the day, it’s always the same exact gaze. Which leads me to believe, she has one function and that’s to look at the monitor. I can only guess she does not do this strictly for work.
Which leads me to the next thought of those folks that live and breathe their electronic gadget as a huge portion of their communicative life. I mean we see it all the time. Two friends walking down the street looking at their gadget instead of looking and talking to each other. Which, to me is a very shallow thing to do. The whole counting on the internet for the purpose to their day. Not real people, but the virtual people. Yes, it communicates, but lacks substance.
Which brings me back to the young lady in the room. Right now she may think this is the dream job of being in her own little electronic world, and I’m sure tweeting, facebooking, texting and socializing electronically friends mixed throughout her working day. But I have to wonder how long it takes for an individual to realize the dead end and lonely road they are taking? Months? Years? Ever?
Maybe it is my age. Maybe it’s my work. I sit in an environment where people are perfectly comfortable, or so they seem, to sit in the front of the monitor and do nothing else social wise. Other folks, I know have to get up and talk… like me.
The whole electronic environment thing is OK in small doses. Like reading a book, give me my own personal time to read a book. It could be half hour it could be hours on end. But in the end my mind needs more.
Back to, how long will it take the average person to realize this electronic social interacting is empty and nothing to account for. I liken the socializing to reading an entertainment magazine. It’s fills an immediate need but has zero value. But like an addiction, they need to get back to that world because they believe that’s all they have.
Or, are they afraid of something?