For past few days I have been thinking about the way I have been expressing myself on the internet. I have also been thinking about what I have been reading - expressions/opinions from others around me in a virtual environment of the internet. And I have come to realize that, while exchanging ideas, we do not look for knowledge - we dish out "facts" (mostly from GOOGLE) after facts. You gain a celebrity kind of status if you could find a link containing some "facts". The quest for knowledge becomes a facts-hunting where we get possessed by links (after links, after links).
We are so busy putting our facts-laced opinions on the web, we tend to forget that it is totally banal to say something without really understanding the same (e.g. me talking about God!!). Looks like we no longer think before using QWERTY.... they are there below our fingers.... say something before somebody else says... otherwise I am going to be irrelevant. That's it... the fear of being irrelevant that drives us to express ourselves.
Consider websites like Facebook, which are popular as social networking sites. However, the question here is - are we being sociable when we are online and writing on each others "wall"? Precisely, we have created walls around us and we are painting graffitis and we call it social interaction! In my opinion, every time we are doing something on the Facebook, we cut ourselves from the reality around us and we become as asocial as one can be.
Take the case of a Korean couple - they starved their kid to death while they were busy feeding their virtual child online. No, it is not metaphorical (read the story on CNN), it is as true as what we are doing to ourselves. In an attempt to being sociable on the internet, we are slowly forgetting how it is to feel the warmth of human relations. We are forgetting that bonding is more than what we say and read on the sites like Facebbok.
