Technology, at its face value, seems as though it provides adequate social interaction, however the reality is quite the opposite. It contains our social existence to the limited scope of our abused communication technology. As Richard Yates stated in his book Revolutionary Road, “It’s a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares anymore; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.” The pocket computers we hold so dear build a smokescreen of empathy, as they provide the ability to feign true emotion through cold, calculating, hollow sentiments. The distance created through instant messaging and texting has allowed individuals the ability to circumvent true human emotion. Falsification of emotion, through text, only further numbs us to the struggles and needs of other individuals by eliminating the emotional triggers of body language in face to face
Technology, at its face value, seems as though it provides adequate social interaction, however the reality is quite the opposite. It contains our social existence to the limited scope of our abused communication technology. As Richard Yates stated in his book Revolutionary Road, “It’s a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares anymore; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.” The pocket computers we hold so dear build a smokescreen of empathy, as they provide the ability to feign true emotion through cold, calculating, hollow sentiments. The distance created through instant messaging and texting has allowed individuals the ability to circumvent true human emotion. Falsification of emotion, through text, only further numbs us to the struggles and needs of other individuals by eliminating the emotional triggers of body language in face to face