Is technology actually making this world a more distant and impersonal place?

Question

Why has internet, emails, chats which is supposed to make communicating more effectively and personal actually making communication more impersonal? And is it good?

Answer 1

I disagree. True, you do not see and touch people and have a very personal connection when talking to people online. But you would not be talking to them at all if it weren't for the internet. People can still have just as many in-person relationships locally but connect to thousands more with the internet. If anything, the internet is brining many more people together and creating more connections than ever before.

p.s.: That's how I met my wife and now I have a daughter and a family that I wouldn't have without the internet.

Answer 2

Is technology actually making this world a more distant and impersonal place? YES, YES, YES. The fact is that we can be anonymous behind a computer screen...so who cares what we say and do. In that is the capacity to release all inhibitions of society and just hang it all out. In this respect it is not good. We lose our humanity.

Answer 3

Absolutely, I remember when, don't you hate it when some one starts a conversation that way, my grandad used to ride a horse 100 miles to the nearest town for a doc and along the way, he was fed, given a rested horse and food to see him on his way. That doesn't happen now, people just shoot you if you evn step onto their property.

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

technology isn't, but us deciding to use it maybe.

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