Privacy vs Attention Seeking

People do not preserve their privacy anymore, the more they show the better.

Meanwhile finding real intimacy in any kind of relationship is becalming harder and harder. Communication technology is invading all aspects of human life, everybody is connected all the time either to a beeper, a cellphone, a palm , a laptop or a combination of them.

This new ways of communication that technology enabled instead of bringing people closer to each other may diminish the quality of human interaction; you can see young people going out together but instead of talking to each other spend most of their time sending text messages through their phones expecting who knows what response.

Those connected to mobile web have the added responsibilities to their friendsters, facebooks (often faceless particiants, how quaint!) and and most recently, twitter. Where is the privacy when peeps even announce "I'm gonna take my shower now" ....... how weird.

Perhaps the need for privacy has turned to a desperate shout for attention; to be noticed!

Or perhaps this cry-for-attention could further explain the copious amounts of $$ splurged on getting the latest technology.

And anyone and everyone who has spent time on the computer would definitely agree of how reading a single paragraph would often lead to a multimedia journey so far reaching that we often forget what we originally went online to look up.

Our relationship to nature has definitely been affected. As we increasingly connect to the world , we're removing ourselves from direct sensory contact with nature. In other words, we are learning to substitute symbols of reality for reality itself. Kids playing guli-guli marbles by the roadside, climbing rambutan trees on a fruit picking frenzy, building treehouses, constructing cherry guns and getting themselves mud-drenched in the football fields under the Malaysian raining thunderstorm are abnormal and almost unheard of experiences nowadays.

Given that many of the peeps stopped believing in god and miracles, maybe this new ways of communication are gadgets becoming our new deities.

Are you a gadget-worshipper?