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Its a strange world we live in now days. 9.3 million people signed up for help at nobullying.com due to online trolls and cyber bullying. Take time to think about that.
Sticks and stones is not the only thing that can hurt now and destroy peoples lives. Words have the ability to build someone up or knock them down. But do we take responsability on what we post nowdays and the damage it can cause.
Through our history we have forever strived to be connected with society. Its not always been an easy thing todo, some of you have reached a certain age that you will remember not even having a house phone. Today it we want to reach out to anyone at any point in our day, we can. We are connected through every mobile phone, Pad, laptop etc by the power of WiFi.
The question is have we forgotten how to connect with each other on a human level. Are we letting basically binary code strip away the emotion, leaving gaps and holes for miscommunication.
Is social media replacing deep, meaningful conversations, are we becoming scared to look someone in the eye and actually feel something.
At work, at home and even out with friends we spend our time staring emotionless at our devices, even creating emoticons to hold on tightly to the idea that we are indeed emotional.
We use passive aggressive on social medial posts without a thought of others.
We try to create the perfect responses edited to be as humourous and cheeky and clever and sarcastic as possible (in our eyes) before hitting send.
We feel that we have right to put obnoxious hateful nasty comments believing as its our opinion we have the right to put them onlne.
We stew for hours because we read a comment and pile on our own insecurities, millions of words in a virtual world sending our hearts and minds in a twirl because we don’t see the individuals face as they type these words, and then when we edit a reply we no longer hold ourselves responsible for how the message is received at the other end.
So just pause for a moment and think, in this world where instant connection is a button press away why is the human race more disconnected now than ever before.
It used to be said we were all simply humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us and wealth classified us. But in this tech age the problem of disconnection is growing, it is impacting on families, friends, relationships and having a devastating effect on our communities.
So what is the answer, and before anyone says I understand the irony of writting this online etc. But maybe its as simple of getting together with friends in a local coffee shop and having a good old fashioned natter.
Stepping away from the keyboard and inviting loved ones around and hiding the tech for the night.
Saying good morning in the street when walking to work, starting to acknowledge those around you, slowing down a little and living in that moment. Get involved in local community groups.
There are so many possible answers all we can do is start to reconnect and enjoy human interaction once again and leave the binary code out of it. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Didn’t you just insinuate that someone was a Twat on another thread?
Ps I agree with your post. "
Yes i did and if you notice i have wrote this in a way that includes everyone including me |
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I do meet my friends in a coffee shop and have a good old natter. Our kids interact with their friends face to face.
There has always been a percentage of the population who are vitriolic and a percentage whose esteem is low enough that they take other people's vitriol on board. The internet has magnified this and made it easier for more people to be affected.
How to change it? Increase self esteem in people, challenge bullying wherever you see it, teach your kids by example to be kind. |
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I do believe that social media was developed to do exactly this, scare, divide and conquer. While everyone is bickering with complete strangers over silly things that don't matter, they stop seeing the big picture, stop socialising, stop living in the now, stop being well rounded individuals and become weaker for it. Weaker people are easier to manipulate and rule.
It takes a lot of strength to step away from the technology and remind yourself that these "people" mean nothing to you and should have no control over your emotional wellbeing. |
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"I do believe that social media was developed to do exactly this, scare, divide and conquer. While everyone is bickering with complete strangers over silly things that don't matter, they stop seeing the big picture, stop socialising, stop living in the now, stop being well rounded individuals and become weaker for it. Weaker people are easier to manipulate and rule.
It takes a lot of strength to step away from the technology and remind yourself that these "people" mean nothing to you and should have no control over your emotional wellbeing."
So it's taking over where religion left off?
Obviously I'm not of the social media generation but our kids are and both of them use social media rather than let it use them. Could this be the problem or part of it? |
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"I do meet my friends in a coffee shop and have a good old natter. Our kids interact with their friends face to face.
There has always been a percentage of the population who are vitriolic and a percentage whose esteem is low enough that they take other people's vitriol on board. The internet has magnified this and made it easier for more people to be affected.
How to change it? Increase self esteem in people, challenge bullying wherever you see it, teach your kids by example to be kind."
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I do believe that social media was developed to do exactly this, scare, divide and conquer. While everyone is bickering with complete strangers over silly things that don't matter, they stop seeing the big picture, stop socialising, stop living in the now, stop being well rounded individuals and become weaker for it. Weaker people are easier to manipulate and rule.
It takes a lot of strength to step away from the technology and remind yourself that these "people" mean nothing to you and should have no control over your emotional wellbeing.
So it's taking over where religion left off?
Obviously I'm not of the social media generation but our kids are and both of them use social media rather than let it use them. Could this be the problem or part of it?"
Exactly, more people are questioning religion and refusing to be "suckered into" a very specific way of thinking but at the same time are happy to believe any old sh1t that social media spews out, it's exchanging one power for another x |
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"I do meet my friends in a coffee shop and have a good old natter. Our kids interact with their friends face to face.
There has always been a percentage of the population who are vitriolic and a percentage whose esteem is low enough that they take other people's vitriol on board. The internet has magnified this and made it easier for more people to be affected.
How to change it? Increase self esteem in people, challenge bullying wherever you see it, teach your kids by example to be kind."
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