Call to Action

So with this highly modernized era of our lives, what can be done to keep in tune with the technology, but yet still maintain good human to human interactions? Well first of all, we can make goals or efforts to reach people in person. For instance, when you get on facebook, you may have some friends who live far away or friends who you have in your friend list, but they are not as close of friends-these people are those who you may not have had much contact with anyway simply because of the way friendships go. For these friends, facebook and blogs are good-this is a way that technology is good and not all bad. Using technology, we can keep in contact with those we may not have otherwise. The problem occurs when those who live next door or just down the street are never seen in person. Those people who we could socialize with, but do not are the ones who we may see in our list of facebook friends and feel compelled to actually set up times to go and visit. This will help to improve the friendship by having a face-to-face relationship. This human interaction and contact is very important in our lives.

Application to life:

The world is so digitally and technologically focused that it is sometimes hard to keep up with all of it. We need to be up to the times with our blogs, our facebook, our twitter, company websites, school websites, entertainment websites, informational websites, such as news websites-CNN etc. A personal application is that in life, we may be pressured by cell phones taking our time, internet taking our time, television, other electronic and technological devices. These all take our time and sometimes we become so absorbed into our modern technology that the closeness and personal aspect of the interpersonal relationships with those around us tend to be dissolved from traditional interactions into ones that are less traditional. By less traditional, I mean that people are not having as many face to face interactions or even voice to voice. People text more and facebook, which is good to keep contact, but not good for keeping the skills and abilities related to normal human interaction that we all need and should develop. I know for me, that sometimes I talk to people a lot through facebook and texting, but when it comes to real life or real interaction, I have a harder time. It’s as if we can all feel safe and comfortable behind our screens, but either get scared or don’t know what to say when we actually come in contact with someone face-to-face. The ability to interact in person is a skill we should not lose.