In today's world of email, im, skype, mobile phones and the all-merging twitter, communication becomes a defining factor in relationships. Being in a long-distance love affair doesn't seem so crucial anymore, all you have to do is log on and BOOM your sweetheart from the other side of the planet is in your living room. It's that easy! The problem is that we become dependent on that line of communication to fuel our relationships.
It's great to get home in the evening from a long day at the office, log on to your skype account, and chat with a friend for whom the day is just starting. Even better to share pictures, MP3s, video etc instantly. People are becoming connected not just electronically but emotionally. I think it's a false perception of closeness.
Our relationships become defined by IM statuses.
We are happy when we see the stupid green icon and we get annoyed when it turns red. We make life-altering decisions based on an illusion. We are human. We need to touch, smell, talk while looking in your partner's eyes. It's nice when you write a post about your bad day and someone leaves a sympathetic comment, but it's nothing comparing to a simple hug.
It's great to get home in the evening from a long day at the office, log on to your skype account, and chat with a friend for whom the day is just starting. Even better to share pictures, MP3s, video etc instantly. People are becoming connected not just electronically but emotionally. I think it's a false perception of closeness.
Our relationships become defined by IM statuses.
- online - I love you! I miss you! I want to talk to you!
- away - I don't want to be bothered! I am mad at you! I am testing you
- busy - I really am busy, if you take it personally that's your bad
- offline - I really don't give a damn! I don't want to talk to anyone!
We are happy when we see the stupid green icon and we get annoyed when it turns red. We make life-altering decisions based on an illusion. We are human. We need to touch, smell, talk while looking in your partner's eyes. It's nice when you write a post about your bad day and someone leaves a sympathetic comment, but it's nothing comparing to a simple hug.
4 comments:
> We are happy when see the stupid green icon and we get annoyed when it turns red.
That's totally true thing! Anyway, I'm mostly online and if I'm switching to ´away´ or ´busy´ that means really out of chat. Fucking internet. I hate ICQ!
I am so happy that your status is almost always green for me :-)
I'm making myself crazy when stupid icon is green but nobody answers my messages :)
It's understandable that this person can be kinda busy at the moment, but I'm thinking that better (for me) to write me "wait a sec" than keep silence.
Stupid IM makes our thoughts stupid too :)
What about when you are IMing with someone and the conversation is "unstable" then all of a sudden they go offline. Did they loose their internet connection? Did my last words piss them off? WTF? and once again we are wondering, dissecting the situation.
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