Recent studies found that despite being more connected than ever, more people feel more alone than ever. Surprisingly, young people who are the most prolific social networkers of all.
So as we have built expansive social networks online, the depth of our networks offline has decreased. Technology makes it easier to stay in touch while keeping distance. People find themselves feeling distant and never touching, not enough to avoid feeling increasingly alone.
Human beings crave intimacy. We are wired for it. Yet genuine intimacy demands vulnerability and vulnerability requires courage. It requires that we lay down the masks we can so easily hide behind online, and reveal all of who we are with others – the good, the bad and the sometimes not so (photo-shopped) pretty.
Digital communication can never replace in person, face-to-face, contact in building relationships- personal and professional. So Mix and Match.
Just a [digital] thought.
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