Human touch
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We all know that technology is changing our human behaviour and, perhaps, our tune about everything.
There's no doubt that life's easier now than just a few years ago. We did away with our past and we've changed into an adaptable and alternative human being.
In a society where Silicon Valley guys are leading the world, perhaps we are forgetting about us: we are leaving out the human touch.
Although we are provided with all modern cons, some people still complain about innovations, claiming that we are losing our human interactions in order to not be social humans anymore.
Is this right? Certainly, our behaviour didn't remain in the same status as several years ago, and have turned into a modern and dynamic evolutionary attitude, which show us a great capability of adaptation.
Nevertheless, it's kind of true that we're losing a real human touch. We know our smartphones inside out, and it's very common to see groups of teenagers going out together, but they don't talk to each other. They're using their phones and posting photos to be fancy, but they just don't enjoy that moment of spending time with their friends.
This is very unusual and particular for our way of being as humans. We are more connected than ever, but we're becoming less socialized and more isolated than ever. Weird.
However, it could be more complex than that. Our generation has no roots. We just don't have strong patriot feelings, in general. It's the globalization generation, so we're not worried about buying a home, having kids or keeping a permanent job for longer, because we want to travel with only a few friends and simply... share our moments together.
Maybe it's a way to escape from reality... or to face up to in a very different way, serving to a new and different purpose and breaking with our old habits and traditions. A kind of "European feeling" has been hitting hard during recent years, helped by the economic crisis.
Anyway, we're not in an uniformed society, so we have to wait to know if this will be for the better or for the worse.
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