Tech Obsession: Is it what's causing “social distancing?”

“I’ll text you later over Messenger.”

“Send me the notes via WhatsApp, please.”

“Let’s talk over Zoom about this.”

Is it self-explanatory about the stereotype which annoys me to nothing?

I’ll break it down for you.

The relentless addiction of technology as its replacement to verbal communication is irksome. From simple day to day talk to grave discussions, it’s always the social media in the present landscape, and in plenty amongst Generation Z. Gone are the days where people used to sit down over tea, look eye to eye and share joys and woes, even as well as studying in unison to aid each other through ruthless equations and theories. Now it’s all about conveying a picture through Snapchat, Instagram or Facebook, or spending numberless hours with YouTube or Netflix, or even popular video games at nose. The evolving of gadgets to smart devices, from analog to everything digital and ever-growing popularity of electronic mediums as means of communication is what works as a hurdle to foster face-to-face interactions. The interpersonal connection which is essential to healthy sentimental attachments through perceiving each other visually, instead of being another chat in the inbox, is nullified completely by the lack of physical affiliation only because technology dominates and controls too much of our lives. What could be previously done over a gentle, understanding conversation which used words spoken now entails words typed with the speedy, perfect wave of fingers on the touch screen keyboard. The detrimental part of it all, the addiction is causing the Generation Z to gather less empathy and compassion within themselves. It’s almost feels like the genuinely forged relationships have been stranded in the spiral of the past we have left behind, to be caught into another spiral of endless radiations and blue lights, contemporary television shows and three-dimensional recreation tethered to a gadget, and everything in between. At the dawn of ever revolving technology, an entire generation has been caged in the screens instead of dear faces, and there is nothing which is stopping them.

Generation Z being the true digital natives, raises the question if their ‘connection’ over technology has amassed its precise meaning, or if the addiction has disguised itself in it. If so, they better come back.