The Loneliest Generation Since the 1990s, the web and the internet have slowly became more popular as people assimilate more about it. Around the early 2000s internet and computers became a must have because people would use it for shopping, banking, and just keeping up with old friends, but slowly the internet and electronic world became more of an addiction and less of a side activity. Though there are some positive concepts about the internet that help us, there are also many negatives. People are more connected than ever in today’s world through social media and electronics, but that is not necessarily a good thing when one considers the effects of it when those people disconnect. When you think about social media and electronics you
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This also opens up the opportunity to get to know one another on a divergent level and to truly experience each other. It is a psychological truth that we need to teach our children how to be alone or they will feel lonely. By having these connections all of the time we become dependent on the constant presence of others. Instead of having a feeling and wanting to call someone, people want to have a feeling and therefore feel like they need to text someone. People have so many ways of connecting that they forget about the best way to do so; one on one. One way to tackle this situation is to remove these distractions during meals and family time. Parents should put the electronics down completely when they are with their children so that they can have their undivided attention and children should only be allowed on the internet at certain times of the day and then need to have real human interactions the rest of the day, such as going outside or going places with friends and family. Also, people could try to turn it all off when having alone time and enjoy the things that are going on around them instead of what’s going on with other people. All people have to do is unplug themselves and it will make them feel so much better in the long run, and they don’t have to unplug permanently, but
This also opens up the opportunity to get to know one another on a divergent level and to truly experience each other. It is a psychological truth that we need to teach our children how to be alone or they will feel lonely. By having these connections all of the time we become dependent on the constant presence of others. Instead of having a feeling and wanting to call someone, people want to have a feeling and therefore feel like they need to text someone. People have so many ways of connecting that they forget about the best way to do so; one on one. One way to tackle this situation is to remove these distractions during meals and family time. Parents should put the electronics down completely when they are with their children so that they can have their undivided attention and children should only be allowed on the internet at certain times of the day and then need to have real human interactions the rest of the day, such as going outside or going places with friends and family. Also, people could try to turn it all off when having alone time and enjoy the things that are going on around them instead of what’s going on with other people. All people have to do is unplug themselves and it will make them feel so much better in the long run, and they don’t have to unplug permanently, but