Venting technology and looking for connections that aren't there

[last.hummingbird]

Sometimes I honestly really wish social media and all the technology we have now wasn't a thing. For all the privileges its granted society its also caused an equal amount in stress. It's such a dissonant experience especially now that I'm isolated, struggling with ideation and in need of genuine connection, wanting to talk to another human being in person, and yet half the time they are mostly preoccupied with their phone or with TV.

Me wanting to talk to you is me trying to see you see me. We all want to be acknowledged and seen. I want to be seen by family but a lot of the time they are coping in the same ways that I am at this point. I'm spending more time with family than ever being home so often, and try talking to them but half of the time they are frequently on their phones, honestly to a degree that isn't healthy. I want to connect in more healthy ways with my siblings, I try to show them that I care, but they're often more interested in being on the phone than interacting with me. No one's doing it out of malice but everyone does it to escape, out of habit.

It feels so damn sad and paradoxical to live in this hyperconnected society, at such an advanced stage in human civilization and simultaneously have to deal with this level of dysfunction and isolation. It makes me wish I could've chosen a different time to be born in. I wish so badly that things were different.

 

[unhappilyundead]

absolutely, I think social media has totally isolated and separated people further than before. How is it we're so lonely with these super communication computers in our pockets? I feel like it's like pulling teeth just to ask people to connect. Comes with the territory I guess. I wish I was born sometime else too; really feels like humanity is coming to a close.