【学子文苑】Does Technology Make Us More Alone?
时间:2021/05/28 来源:天问国际高中 点击: 2343


Internet technology has revolutionized modern life by allowing people to conduct real-time communication in the virtual world. On the flip side, people drift apart from intimate relationships in real life. Sometimes, the quick clicks on the keyboard are just a melody revealing how lonely they are. Loneliness has become a common social issue meriting attention. If loneliness is part of human life, then mobile phone addicts are upgraded to this loneliness. If loneliness is a warning signal that needs to be interactive, then social media addiction makes people lonelier, making people's contact between people more subtle and fragile.The current Internet society is the first phase of the human loneliness of the technological society. Those who can understand our emotions will be the second phase of loneliness, and this stage will come soon. 


First of all, we must admit that we indulge in the online world. Our habits drive our behaviours, like routine check our most frequently used APP. However, our heart is always in a state of unrest. Without a quick glimpse of the updated news feed on Weibo, we would feel restless. When we indulge in online shopping, we missed the most valuable things: the intimate in-person relationship. Artificial intelligence has become more complicated, sufficiently intelligent, providing us with emotional comfort. Sceptics argue about the necessity of realistic interpersonal communication since artificial intelligence could meet human emotional needs. Indeed, the Internet has become the real thing for most people. They spend most of their idle time on the Internet and conduct operational exchanges on their mobile phones. And there is more time to spend on the phone, and there are no signs of change. For example, in a fascinating movie, when the heroine is in a dilemma, people will be nervous and scared, seized by an immersion that is not human nature. 

In addition, the Internet takes up people's leisure time. Leisure is not necessarily the pursuit of human civilization. But because the Internet inundates our lives, will-initiated and spontaneous natural leisure time is curtailed. Our life lacks unique and heart-to-heart contact among people. Digital social time squeezes out the time for in-person communication. Once it is institutionalized, real-life human interaction would become awkward and out of place. When people feel lonely, they will choose to put more time into a virtual society, buy more expensive mobile phones, more online shopping, or spend more time with Google Assistant chat or bubbles in Tiktok and other content platforms. Behaviours aside, the very action marks the beginning of the loneliness.