Social Connections

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Technology, created to make life easier. What once were both dangerous and tedious tasks can be performed by the touch of a button, with all the bases covered by the technology we possess are we left bored? We do not need to spend time learning skills that would usually be required because we can Google the answer to almost everything the mind desires, we don't even need to leave the house to get food, clothing, miscellaneous objects or even to gain simple social interaction between friends, family and strangers. With all the necessities covered by what now could be considered our life source, are we more reliant than ever before? Are we still capable or this thing called friendship? Is a social network really social? Or is it keeping us from truly being human.

Human. what defines human? Our speech? Our mind of indepence? Our emotions? All these things are related to the one big picture... Communication. Even the most skilled writer cannot portray the deepest emotions we as humans will feel in our life, the pain of social rejection although horrible to experience is necessary for anybody to be able to deal with the situations they will find themselves in many times and with the almost constant bombardment of social networking sites surrounding us the emotions and words are not stated, they are typed, they are dulled by the distance technology creates, they should not be considered real. Social networking has such a large impact on a teenagers life that they may be on in for multiple hours a day, not necessarily doing anything either, just staring ad scrolling. Perhaps talking to a friend, if that could even be considered a conversation, maybe playing the well known game of Candy Crush, Tetris Battle, or even the addictive one of ...

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... real relationship through a text or a social networking site? You can not know how a person acts, talks or walks just by text, sure you may feel like you have a ‘bond’ but it surely cannot be fulfilling when you cannot even see them face to face.

The biggest question is a simple one, but the answers are unlimited. This question being... will technology stop us from being able to form a social connection? And my answer is yes, to a point but yes, yes it will. No matter how well people convince themselves that an online relationship is real it is not, unless you can see that person, you can never really know that person and trying to have a successful relationship without ever meeting them is in my opinion pointless and not worth the effort. This being said of course is not for every case, some people might indeed find “new and amazing friends!” but are they really?

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