Disclaimer: This is not meant to put social media down. Social media is not bad in itself, only when it is abused, much like anything else, the point is we need more human touch and interaction :) I have been having weird dreams lately. Dreams that are philosophical in nature. Dreams that speak to life as it is lived today. I am not sure if it relates just to me or if it also pertains to the general populace. As I was waking from my dream this morning I Felt myself going into a rant, Rick Mercer style. My dream involved several people who were going through their day having one empty conversation after another. So I started thinking about this and the why behind it. Here is my shocking discovery that most people already know. We are in danger of losing our ability to have deep meaningful conversations. It was a scary and sobering thought. So I reflected on this to see if there was any truth to the matter. Lets see, I get up, go to work, get involved in a discussion about some tv shows people may or may not have seen. That progresses to weather around the water cooler, sports talk - depending on what playoffs are happening and who is left in the playoffs. (Eg. For me, no Leafs, little talk). In any case we seem to have our lists of topics that we are going to discuss throughout our days. They may also involve music, fashion (depending on the female population of your work place), and will veer off course depending on lifestyle, whether you have kids, and other interests. We spend a lot of time at work? Do we need to have similar conversations everyday, or can we break through the shallowness of small talk? Other than at work, we have conversations on Facebook, such as check out this recipe, picture, point of interest that only two other people care about, or hey, come and play the latest game with me and if you dont I will still keep inviting you. Then we may jump on twitter to see whats going on only to learn our long lost buddy that we hadnt heard from in years had #bacon and eggs for breakfast this morning mmmmmmmmmm. Then we check our business connections and jump on LinkedIn and we find we have 10 pending recommendations from people we dont even know. That is becoming a “look how good I amand I can build a better profile than you so really good companies will read my profile and want to desperately hire me. Then if you look to the rest of your social media sites you will get similar results. Here is the reality: that is exactly what all those sights have in common. For the majority of people they go on there for that shallowness. To empty their minds perhaps from a stressful day at work. They go on there to play a game or two. That is okay, until it becomes all we do and all our interaction is wrapped up in social media. After doing this for awhile our very souls cry out to be fed, or people say, I need to take a break from Facebook. These social media sites have taken away a little of our ability to have these deep meaningful conversations that everyone needs from time to time, they are just plain, good for the soul. So the challenge today is try to have a deep meaningful, or at least semi deep and meaningful (remember Rome wasnt built in a day) conversation with someone. Tell someone a concern, open up, or be a shoulder to cry on for someone else. That is what makes us real people. That is what people are missing in their lives, and that is what people are crying out for in this shallow society we are living in. Today. Make the most of all your conversation opportunities, you will be glad you did, someone else will be glad you did. Be someones inspiration today! Do it! Press on...
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:29:45 +0000
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