Technology started being the center of every incident in humans life. For example, when you see news in the newspaper and if you click on it you’ll see someone is complaining about how technology affected someone in bad way. We can discuss other disadvantages of technology in another essay, but our topic is: “Crowded loneliness”
As we technology created a social atmosphere for each of us to have a social time. With these technologies, you are able to talk with your friends and you have a chance to talk and meet with someone new. You may noticed that I wrote the exact things that you are also able to do in a cafe or any other social places. The thing I am trying to say is we are doing the exact same thing in a different way. But only the place changes. This can seem as a minor difference but it has bigger affects more than we thought.
When you stop seeing your friend in real life and start talking with them from Instagram, you got used to it and you stop meetting them in real life. When you got used to it you don’t do that anymore and your social life depends on a device instead of your brain. You don’t notice that but it seperates you from real social life which is the ability of talking with someone else in cafe. Then the term “Crowded Loneliness” appears. You look at your Instagram post and you see lots of people liked your stories or posts and you define yourself as a social person but then you notice no one is next to you in your social life. You just start to think your only social activity is the posts you like. Also you start acting like everyone in social media. You see an influencer and you act like them . You do the same things, you drink the same water, you use the same brands and you try to be like them exactly when you see they got lost of likes and comments on Instagram. Then your whole personality disappears cause you start laughing at the same jokes or making the same jokes. Then you see no one wants to be next to you cause this person is not you, it is just a copy of the ones who they see in Instagram.
This is not a situation I experienced but it can happen to anyone who is getting addicted to these technology boxes. So we as humans (especially as students) have to be carefull. about creating a social life made of friends, not followers.