Look Up

I love this.

I am not anti-technology, and I see the convenience of facebook, instagram, twitter, and linked in-- especially since it gives us the option to stay close to friends and family all over the world.

I don't think that having an active life on social media necessarily means that you have sacrificed real, face-to-face community, but I do see a tendency in my generation to replace "real" lives with social media lives.

After all, it's a whole lot easier to connect with people when your "connection" is limited to a comment here and a post there. It's a whole lot easier to deal with conflict when all you have to do with someone who irritates you is unfollow them. Dealing with people face-to-face is... messier.

And while I think that would be great if the conversations that were had on social media were comparable to conversations people have in real life-- they aren't. At least I haven't experienced many that are. So I think we miss out, and I think that that's a real shame.

Props to Gary Turk for seeing something that bothers him and sharing his opinion in such a lovely way.