As an “ older” human on this planet… it has been my observation, that social communication between people face to face, started breaking down with social media platforms. When one hides behind a screen, when noone can see your face, why is it important to adhere to social graces, common courtesy or have an intelligent conversation, when all you have to do is type your opinion over and over again, and use obscene language when addressing a person?
Take away the person in front of you, and you remove the need to pause, to question, to reconsider. What replaces it is often certainty without evidence, and language that wouldn’t survive a real conversation.
We see it play out repeatedly. The environment doesn’t just allow it, it rewards it.
As an “ older” human on this planet… it has been my observation, that social communication between people face to face, started breaking down with social media platforms. When one hides behind a screen, when noone can see your face, why is it important to adhere to social graces, common courtesy or have an intelligent conversation, when all you have to do is type your opinion over and over again, and use obscene language when addressing a person?
There’s so much truth in this.
Take away the person in front of you, and you remove the need to pause, to question, to reconsider. What replaces it is often certainty without evidence, and language that wouldn’t survive a real conversation.
We see it play out repeatedly. The environment doesn’t just allow it, it rewards it.