What have cellphones, e-mail, instant messaging, SMS and social networking sites done to us? For one they have made it easier to connect and relate to others. Infact it even has helped people find old friends, keep in touch, even though you may not have met them for years. Technology has created ways where we can choose who we want in our virtual world and block the unwanted.In a busy world technology has helped us form virtual relationships, sometimes with very little probability of meeting face to face.
Along with all this, technology has created space for individuals who want instant gratification. If Sigmund Freud, a psychoanalyst would have been alive, he would have jumped in joy to see how his theory about humans wanting instant pleasure has turned right.
Maybe Freud was born a little too early. I wonder what else he could have speculated.
By Instant Gratification, I just mean that people want quick replies to their sent text messages — the absence of which can create doubt, panic and sometimes a lot of other thoughts about how their message is being perceived. The reality is that no matter how reliable technology is, sometimes, it fails us. The messages don't reach,there are people who don't read messages and also sometimes if we keep our phones silent, we may miss a message for hours and not only that if you are in a meting or workshop,you may not see it all!
This happens to all of us, but the big question is — what can you do about it?
I love technology and I'm married to a techie :) So this isn't any anti tech message. It's just a thought. Let's explore how we can use technology to our optimum in the next article.
2 comments:
Nice one, Sonali. Just adding to it, from my experience- i think, technology, instant gratification and also message tone are closely linked. Sometimes, the tone of the text message and time taken to gratify also creates panic.
You have really great taste on catch article titles, even when you are not interested in this topic you push to read it
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