Social media is definitely changing society.
Firstly, the level of conversation folk have is substantially higher than it was.
My children talk to their friends so much more than I ever did.
In shops mobile (cell) phones are prominent and even interfere with checkout transactions.
Even car drivers can be seen chatting or clicking away in traffic. Scary stuff.
(I don’t understand why they don’t just include blocking tech to stop this)
Some of it’s good though.
Gill can leave me message to pick up during my breaks.
Our stilted conversations can take all day sometimes.
Secondly, my location seems to be constantly monitored. My smart phone knows where I am, unless I switch that bit off. It makes suggestions for me to eat or visit. My messages are geotagged too.
This constant need to locate folk to target marketing feels intrusive – but I do have the power to switch off and disappear.
The upside is that I can easily locate my kids if they’re out.
If they haven’t switched off!
Thirdly, Focusing on a little screen is stopping people from experiencing their world. Pop concerts are a forest of little lights as people view reality through their phone.
The need to click everything as it happens means people are spending more time watching videos and looking at pictures than ever before.
But we do have a choice.
Choose to remove intrusive apps from your phone.
Turn data off so those annoying pings don’t happen.
Experience your world without recording it.
Unhitch yourself from the empty high of having lots of “friends” and go and spend more real time with them – talking and laughing and just being together.
Just turn them off.
