Social Media is a Plague

      Technology is a wonderful thing most of the time.  While working, computers make it easier and faster to get the to-do list done.  But, with the social media explosion that is happening today, things are becoming blurred.  Friends are now at our fingertips and relationships can be formed over networks.  This has created a new and downright scary breed of anti-social folks.  Further driving this breed is text messages and instant messaging through social networks.  Blog sites also fuel this issue which turns out to be an oxymoron considering this is a blog.
      Go back twenty years ago and things looked and sounded much different.  Home phones would ring and dial up took ten minutes to log on to the Internet, but not at the same time.  Do not take this the wrong way but those days are missed.  People would connect in a way that was meant to be more personal.  They did not just "like" a post or a picture.  Communication then was done on a personal level not behind the screen of a phone or a tablet.  Oh how those days are long gone, never to return.
      Fast-forward to the present and things are not as personal as they once were.  Phone calls are close to the dinosaur era now.  Text messaging has replaced a very simple form of communication.  Face it, texting is not easier than dialing a number but it is less personal.  That is where the anti-social part is starting to gain it's ground.  With less and less of a personal connection "friends" are not what they use to be.
      The monster that is social media is destroying personal relationships and friendships more and more each day.  How many phone calls are made each week?  What about outings with friends that are not tagged in a social media post?  The sad thing is, not many!  People have lost the one thing that separates them from animals.  Connections!  Every friendship and relationship requires a connection.  Crime has risen at a rocket pace in recent years and it is believed that social media is devaluing the human connection.  Sure it allows the user to connect with long lost friends and family but through a digital portal that has no emotion.  Once human life connections are lost then what is their value?
      See the problem lies in the false sense that social media is allowing people to connect daily, but it is not.  It actually does just the opposite.  They tend to forget the emotional connection and how important that really is.  They run into a person that is a "friend" on social media but yet hardly speak to them!  Why? Cause where the hell is the human connection?  It is gone and with it humanity as it was once known.  This was not intended to be doom and gloom but look around and be the judge.  Connectivity needs to be restored before it's too late for the human race!