The Disconnect

I overheard two colleagues talking the other day about using twitter to communicate some marketing scheme..one said, “It’s hard to come up with something to say.”

We live in a world that is consumed by technology and social media. And along with it is an underlying rumble that the use of such things destroys the human desire to interact face-to-face, intimately, human-to-human. 

Here is my argument, if human nature truly longed for something different, would this stuff really have caught on? Blaming the facebook for the loss of deep relational connection is like blaming the Edsel for making all cars ugly. The truth is - humanity steers toward what it likes, what it knows, what it is comfortable with. The eyes like beautiful cars, so ugly ones don't last that long.

The reason people text or twitter instead of meet over a cup of coffee twice a day is because it is easier. The nature of the flesh avoids difficult human interaction, the facebook is just a vehicle. Disconnect is the demand, technology is the supply.