This was an epiphany for me. It's discouragingly true and more evidence of the current post-human society (people are more comfortable with technology than humans).
No wonder it's virtually impossible to develop close friendships & interactions with other people when email & text messaging are virtually the only acceptable forms of communication.
How do you establish new friendships when nobody wants to communicate via voice or in person? I would venture to say that these less intimate forms of communication would drastically slow any development of acquaintance to close friendship.
This article describes exactly what I've become - more comfortable with technology than human interaction. But at the same time, I don't want to continue living virtually friendless and very little meaningful human contact.
Given this trend towards preferring technology over humans, is it becoming impossible to find new and meaningful friendships?
"In the last five years, full-fledged adults have seemingly given up the telephone — land line, mobile, voice mail and all. According to Nielsen Media, even on cellphones, voice spending has been trending downward, with text spending expected to surpass it within three years."
- Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You - Discovery Zone (view on Google Sidewiki)
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