Today in our modern age, people rely on technology at almost everything.

We do

commit our lives in the hands of machinery, in making our works easier, and better.

Yes, that is the function or main purpose of technology, to help us in making our lives

comfortable, but for what worth? Using technology as a form of communication is a

danger to our existence as a person with emotions and thoughts. We rely on those little

connection just to feel safe and bonded with other people, but does it give the response

that we need to receive as a person? No.

Communication is everywhere in our daily lives, we use it to function in our jobs,

in school, or in every part in general. Even in coffee shop, even if the machine does all

the mix and match of your coffee, you still talk to the counter to order. You wait in line

every morning with some people you might know in the office, or class, just to get that

energy to start your day. But, while waiting, did you converse with them? No, mainly

because you’re not in the mood, or just straight up socially awkward person and you

rather text than greet them. It kills you to be in that spot, and to look ‘not rather

awkward’ you rely on your phone to waste time in line. And yes, I know how it feels to

be like that. We use our phones to escape in that situation, to look ‘busy’ with our

communication online, but with whom?

Some might say we talk to our friends, to our family, and to the stranger who

followed you on twitter, but is those reply even true or emphatic in your situation? We

don’t know. We use the technology to have control, that’s why we rather show our best

version online rather than the whole self that defines us in reality. Everything can be

changed online. We don’t even know if we really are the person in our twitter feed.
Receiving a love or a relationship from someone online might not be to you, but to the

alter version of yourself that you have created in search for connection.

We can never escape the reality that is why we use technology as our route to

change what we don’t want in our lives. We connect and connect until we feel a part of

a group. It gives us the illusion of having a relationship without giving the demands to

start a friendship. It lets us to be in control, to nitpick what to share and what to change.

We lingers to feelings but we are never transparent by it in reality. We rather share it

online to make ourselves connected, but it does not. No one really connects with you

online, because no one knows what it actually means to be together with you.

Companionship online is hard and rough. People will just walk in and out of your

lives without even saying anything. You will ended up being alone, but it is okay. There

is nothing wrong from being alone, it rather grows you as an individual. Talking in

person might seems hard, but it is much better than talking to someone online that does

not even know you. Yes, we rely things in technology, but communication through social

media platforms will never satisfy us as a person. We have our thought and feelings that

needs actual connection to be understood. We must grow as a person, and we can only

do that if we know how it is feels to be alone, and to be understood by the people that

actually knows us.