Connectivity.

There's something about smart phones. Especially the very current ones. With their do-all capabilities, there is very little we will not turn to it for. But having recently acquired one myself, I find myself  growing uncomfortably attached to it. And I asked myself why. Why the reluctance to put it down? Just 30 seconds ago when I decided to pick it up again and write this instead. It felt like I was severing a connection to the outside world, to people when I put it down. That's why. 

But there's no connection to be had there. Not really. A connection to our social media and our phone screens isn't a real connection. We have built for ourselves a society which is afraid of being disconnected from other people while being at the same time so hopelessly disconnected. For there is no connection to be had there. 

The impersonality of the liking and the writing and the commenting and the checking and the status updating. We drive ourselves into believing we are connected when we are really not. Because none of the above, save in exceptional circumstances help us build a proper bond with each other. Fondness does not develop. Because we are so impersonal, even when we are being personal.