One of the greatest benefits we get from smartphones is that we get closer to people, due to the ease and advantages they offer us. From messaging applications to social networks.
Currently, with the ease of a few clicks, we can call or write to someone who may live in another country or even on another continent.
However, contrary to what we would think, due to the ease that technology offers us, currently we are increasingly distant from others and creating fictitious relationships in front of others and that what they do is self-absorbed. I will explain myself.
Some years ago, when there was not such a wide proliferation of technological devices, I remember going on the bus and seeing people talking to each other, without neglect. Now, every time I get on a bus I see more people with their cell phone in their hands, completely hooked on it and without any type of contact with the other people on the bus.
That is only the first example, because it also happens that once we have linked ourselves to technological devices, it is not that this increases our contact with others because, in general, we are even more busy and we do not always answer or get upset. agreement with people.
So, on the one hand we have that we have distanced ourselves from people assuming that we can approach them through technology but it turns out that that is not entirely true.
I understand that there are obligations, I understand that the current pace of life is not the best but it is time to sit down and analyze if some things we do bring us closer to or rather are distancing us from contact with people.
Sometimes I do not understand if we play to be more important than others or if it is that the rhythm of life has us between a rock and a hard place and we cannot even breathe to connect with other people.
I wanted to emphasize in this article a specific example, the case of smartphones; however, I suppose that we can find many other manifestations of what I say.
The example serves to see that something that is supposed to be designed at first to make life easier and closer to others but that becomes a double-edged sword that rather works the other way around and makes us be further away from them. . How ironic right?
