How social media disconnects you from the real world?

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How social media disconnects you from the real world?

Our dependency on technology has made our lives easier but at the same time, we have also become lazy to the great extent.
Sep 9, 2017, 11:33 am ISTLifestyleSaurabh Anand
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Many of us start and end our day with checking all the notifications showed up on our mobiles. Your mobiles have become your best friends instead of the friends' contacts that you have on the speed dial list. Our dependency on technology has made our lives easier but at the same time, we have also become lazy to the great extent.

The key reason behind the evolution of social media is to connect people with the entire world. The vision was to make communication better and forward going but in today's scenario, social has replaced natural world around us with a simulated atmosphere. It is an artificial setup where we are the hero in the story. This world is exactly what we always desire for. A place where you are liked inevitably and appreciated.

It is so biased where no one has complained about you. It is purely win win situation for you who gets trapped into social media's vicious circle. It is quite unlikely that real world where no one does not wait for anybody, you learn every day something new, where you lose your nears and dears, where you have to earn things through hard work.

Social media disconnects you with your own selves to the extent that one may go to any limit in order to be liked by others. You try to please others by portraying our lives quintessential be it through our visits to cool places, what we eat or may by what we wear. It is a place with unlimited narcissists and their fans that it makes incapable of handling rejection. You get so used to flattering that we do not get introduced to the real world which is too big and complex than this shimmering zone.

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