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RE: Loosening the purse strings
I hope it eventually evolves into the opposite, that people overcompensate for the cold impersonality of the key board with warm and caring words.
Me too. I watched a family at a cafe today sit on their phones and barely talk to each other, while my wife, daughter and I laughed away together at the table next to them. Disconnection from people leads to depression, and we are separating ourselves from the people we are closest to.
That’s both funny and sad. My wife and I have a rule, when we take people out to dinner cellphones are not to be used except when you go to the bathroom or when we leave. Whoever we take to dinner commands our full attention. The funny thing is the young people have started looking forward to their dinners with us because it’s peaceful and of course all about them. LOL I think they truly grave real human connection.
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It is the irony of technology and social networks - designed to connect for personalized attention, drives people apart toward loneliness.