“Human beings are social animals”
The above line is quoted in every marketing attempt to promote social presence. But whether it is physically or digitally becomes irrelevant. Now a days being social is mis understood as being active in digital social platforms because this is how we are being trained especially the Genz’s.
Every living being born in this world need to socialize with other living being. This is a default setting which is imprinted in our DNA, then only we will be able to live in this world without any conflicts. Nature is very intelligent to construct our evolution in this way for the earth’s survival.
Let’s understand the phrase social wellbeing, which means constantly felt to be surrounded by any living ones to interact, touch and feel lively. In the era of social media, this way of social wellbeing is completely phased out. We are entirely immersed into digital platform to connect, interact and pseudo touch like poking, hugging emojis. This way of being will violate the nature’s expectation of bringing us into this world with the need of social being.
Humanity will thrive when the classical way of social wellbeing by connecting with real people is continued. All the conflicts in the modern world are present because we distanced ourselves from the real people and be more with digital people. This trend drained every bit of emotions from our DNA and make us more self-centric, singular and addicted of being alone thinking that we are already connected with million followers.
Olden days of being alone is called solitude. We often enter into this phase to cut all the outside world and searching for the inside world. But this phase is more embraced at the later stage of life who have immersed his/her entire life being more social and seen the extent of every emotion. This is not the case now. We are very much alone in our entire life and at the last leg of our life we search for the emotion which we missed in the complete journey.
Digital platforms are designed to engross people completely and deceive our brain not to feel alone but in reality, we are already dead alone. We realize it only when life throws us in to a time where we need real people’s help to handle a situation. Searching for friends, relatives and every possible human to give hand in that difficult situation will be like being in an alien world where everyone will be felt foreign even our parents too.
We are not designed by the nature to jail ourselves in our own world by our own hand.
Friends, we are meant to be living the life with other living beings. Understanding this sooner is better because this will save us from being extinct. We are meant to be living in the world as human being, but we are not now.
