In this present world of high tech facilities and modern equipments personal connections are dwindling swiftly in place of which digital relations are now gaining control. If you want to wish your friend a good morning, then instead of going over to his/ her place and catching up you send a cheery SMS with a GM - that stand for Good Morning - at the end.
There are cases where you have not met your school friend for ages but rather than setting up a plan to meet, you would most probably just keep in contact by sending one SMS each day. Is it because your busy schedule does not allow just one extra hour to spend with your old friend or is it because you want the easy or the lazy way out to keep in contact?
Yes it is acceptable that people need to move on with their lives and that it is not always possible to keep in touch personally with ‘n’ number of people in a single day and at times like these messaging comes in handy. But what about those teenagers who are sitting right next to each other with cell phones in their hands, who rather than chatting directly instead use SMS’s to communicate. Don’t you think that it is quite silly, leave alone the added expenses involved in this practice?
Well for a moment let’s forget about the ease or laziness involved in sending SMS’s because these characteristics are not half bad. Let us now consider the times these messaging functions are used as a cover for cowardly purposes. Like take for example you forgot to stick to a promise you made to your friend and instead of saying sorry to his/ her face you instead sent a message that reads ‘sry’ with a drooping face smiley that supposedly depicts your emotion.
Even though we believe that these digital contacts help in maintaining relationships we are in reality becoming more impersonal as time passes. If we let our machines do all our talking then how do you suppose you can judge real emotions that can only be analyzed through face to face interactions?
On account of the many socially interactive websites that have come up we have hundreds of friends with whom we have never met but chat on a daily basis. How would we find out whether or not these “friends” are trustworthy? Are all the facts that they are dishing out to us true? No, we can never be sure but we do keep on sending one word greetings to them and continue to call them our “friend”.
