Why is so important to have lots of friends on Facebook if people still feeling alone in real life?
Pequeno artigo em inglês feito para fins acadêmicos sobre a interação de pessoas na internet e na vida real.
This age is all about internet. We share things, we give them a “like”, we comment and we also add a lot of virtual friends in the social media. But in real life, the same people that have a lot of friends in social medias, or fell alone, or exclude themselves from people. Why is it more important to have friends on internet than in real life? I have two theories.
First, we care more about illusion, the image of being someone, than actually being this person. For example, if you think that is really nice to be a vegetarian, you share a lot of things about it, and publish images with vegetarian food etc, even though you eat meat in real life. What really matters is that people believe that you are what you share. So that implies that your internet life is more important than the real one, so you do not care if you don’t have friends in the real one because you believe that the internet is the “real” life.
The second theory is that people are so focused in the internet life, that they “forgot” how to live among people in real life. I know it can sound weird, but it is true and there are many studies about it. People don’t know any more how to interact, or start conversations, or just let their cellphones aside so they can talk to people. That is really depressing. In a group of ten, seven are in their cellphone, which means that only three of them are interacting and creating connections in real life. And that’s a hopeful statistic, because from where I see it, in a group of ten, almost always, ten are in their smartphones.
Because of those things, that’s why people complain of being alone all the time even though they have many friends on Facebook. People have the need of interacting with other people, in the real life, I mean. So, maybe we should stop giving too much importance to the friends we do online, and care more to the friends we have outside internet, maybe it can help with the loneliness felt in this generation.
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