Go into any coffeeshop, any restaurant, or any bar, and you're more likely to find people
staring into the blank empty white void of their tablets, cellphones, laptops, or the television. Of the few tables where you will see a couple or a group of friends & coworkers speaking to each other, within minutes, they too will eventually join the herd of people who are affixed to the eternal and omnipresent screen.
Our lives are becoming more and more similar to the future depicted in Spike Jonze's fim 'Her'. Already, we are 'in love' with our devices, or at least spending an unreasonable enough amount of time with them, even more so than with our lovers in the bedroom. Or so says the BBC.
Source: // http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25094142
But why? Why are we so enthusiastic to 'connect' to each other on the Internet, versus the person sitting right next to us, much less our next door neighbors? Somehow, it's considered 'rude' to not text before making a call. Somehow, it's considered awkward to 'friend' people in Facebook before meeting the other person offline, versus previous and current social networking websites where it 'is' acceptable to 'friend' people without prior contact.
Questions begging to be answered, are they not?
Hence, despite being a phenomenon unique to this century, and, despite research and debate both in the scholarly circle or in the bar room circles, I myself will attempt to answer this question. Why are we more 'connected' online, than 'offline'?
This will probably an impossible task, if not improbable, but it's a topic that's been bothering me for a while. Hopefully, I will finally be able to put all my years of education (and that's being generous) to some actual use.
Wish me luck.
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