Living in the virtual world

Technology has aided our lives that now it cannot be lived without. Specifically the social networking sites have made the world smaller and people closer – this has become the definition of these sites. Now we can connect to any number of people sitting anywhere in the world. All this is quite true, but there is a huge drawback to this rosy scene.

It is the human touch the people have started living without, getting completely dependent on the technology. Some of the people have gotten so engrossed in the virtual world, they have forgotten how to communicate with real persons. These people literally live in the virtual world. They are utterly active on the social networking scenario, they provide updates of their every moment to their so called millions of friends over the internet, they talk, they smile, they even celebrate in that world. But when it comes to talking to the people who live with them, are part of their lives, they are reclusive. It needs efforts to pull them out and yet there is an itching they have to return to the virtual world.

In that alternative world, people portray themselves the way they wish to be, they try to show themselves as a happening and interesting person so that other people come to recognize them and acknowledge them. But the reality might be completely different. The problem for the normal people is to get attached to them and vice versa.

The virtual touch cannot replace the actual human connection of a relationship. Talking on the phone even is better than just commenting on each other’s status. The attachment and alliance of a relationship is with actual people and not their dummy virtual counterparts.