Latest technology solves problems creates new one as well
I don’t know about you, but as of late I’ve noticed there is this new trend seems to be catching on. Almost everywhere I go, one of the most funny or weird thing going on is that a couple would sit together having breakfast, lunch or dinner at the same table but not talking to each other. As both seems to be engrossed in their own life through their mobile phones. Not to say I’m busybody or what, but last night Deluxe and myself went and had dinner we spotted this couple. What happened was that, the guy was sitting outside fiddling with his phone and his date went in and placed the order. After placing the order and paid for it, she went and brought their food to where they sat outside. Because there was a glass door, the guy kept fiddling with his phone while his date had a hard time trying to open the door. By the time she finally sat down and place the food and drinks on the table, the guy was still pretty much fiddling with the phone. Not long after that, his date took out the phone and started to play with it as well.
Anyway, we pretty much left after that, and Deluxe and I started to have this conversation on what actually happened. It was kinda weird in a sense whereby she just see the whole thing happened and thought the guy was not being a gentlemen at all. And I told her, that this wasn’t the first time I saw things like this happened. Back in my Jakarta trip, one of the places we went and eat couple sitting across each other and both of them was busy BBM each other.
Who are you texting to?
Ever since mobile Internet have been made affordable, people tend to text more or chat more on their phone compared to real life. Everyone is either chatting away on their mobile as if we are receiving live report probably Malaysia winning the world cup. Not that I’m against all that, just that probably gone were the days when people just call you up and say hi. But instead it is currently being replaced by chatting. And one of the downside of chatting is that, you may not know the facial expression or what the person is feeling. Plus with multi-tasking you can pretty much chat with multiple people at the same time. So I’m not too sure how the couple would have ended the date. Deluxe suspect that they are probably married, for me I thought that maybe they are still dating or something. Either way, if this sort of things continues to happen they’ll end up splitting up due to “communication breakdown”.
Deluxe continue stating that indeed technology should bring people even closer, but instead it solves one problem and creates another. Deluxe is now able to communicate with her friends more and finds that it helps being able to keep in touch with her best friends freely. But she was wondering how come things like this could have happen like the couple we mention earlier. And someone told me one person can be so different and talkative behind the keyboard, but when coming to real life suddenly being an introvert person. One reason could be the person probably lack of self confidence, or worried someone else will steal their thunder. So to prevent that from happening best just keep quiet and listen.
Anyway, whatever the reason it may be. When you’re out on a date, or spending time with your family. It is best you just keep your phone offline. Lol. If it’s an sms, it’s not really urgent. If it was something urgent, they would have called instead of SMS. Never the less, this is only from my point of view. And you may have a different view from what I have, so I don’t mind talking about this. So what say you?
