The Lost of the iPhone

Technology is being improved all the time to help us. It helps but makes us rely on it, too dependent. For example telephone, it helps us to communicate with others by calling or messaging them, it's for saving time rather than sending letter which might take sometime. I get the benefits of technology but the further it grows, the further people become so far away from each other even if they're still communicating.

Letter is a simple thing, people used to send letters or cards but now a days they barely do that except wedding invitation maybe. The feelings when you receive a letter is beyond now because you can say it's private, confidential and you can feel the effort of sending letters. People don't care anymore, holiday season, they will send you the same message all at once to everyone, even worse use Facebook to send everything.

I am a big fan of Facebook and I used smartphones before and I can say I am addicted to it. I rely on my phone so much, everything in there, all the data and stuff. It helps me to keep up with my friends. But now that I have to give up my smartphones, changes everything. I can't keep up with my friends. Is it really that bad if you don't have smartphones? Well, in some way, I will say yes. Because, I need most of the data in there and I can't access those data with old phones. The other things, I might say no. It feels good not to rely on Facebook and use the phone all the time, instead you're having a full time living your life communicate with people who really want to communicate with you and put some effort for that. I love sending letters and post cards. I feel like I appreciate my friendship and I show the love to all the people whom I sent the letters to. It doesn't mean I don't appreciate them if I communicate with them through Facebook, it means I appreciate their existence more. It takes more thoughts and more effort to send letters than to just click post button on Facebook.

It's just a matter of does technology change you or you change the technology. Become the subject or object. I prefer to be the subject since we, human invented it. So we can control it. It's good to use it wisely. You can value your relationship with someone more than that, make them feel special like you're special for them. Better world with technology but is it better person?

#better world needs better people
-vc-