Lonely Americans
In one of my previous posts I was complaining about my life style which was not social at all and discussed reasons behind that and then my new activities for keeping myself busy and one of them was Internet too. I didn’t mention it or discussed it indirectly by saying that I was coding on Sunday.New studies show that Americans have been getting anti-social and not getting engaged with people in real life. From the article in science blog: The study compared data from 1985 and 2004 and found that the mean number of people with whom Americans can discuss matters important to them dropped by nearly one-third, from 2.94 people in 1985 to 2.08 in 2004. The research doesn’t indicate clear reasons behind this change but I feel that Internet could be one of the reason behind this big change. Living in cyber world, wasting time with people who are stranger for us and discussing useless things for hours made you not to discuss important things with your closed friends.Internet has become pretty common among Pakistanis and now you can see people from small cities and villages seek girls online for sex or for love rather try to build some good relationship.This situation is very different than 96/97 when I was new in Internet world and used to lots of chatting on Pakistani channel. I came cross with many good people who were very active in real life at that time but you hardly find same condition now even when the same irc channel doesn’t look similar anymore and now you don’t like to make a friend from cyber world. I was lucky to meet people in cyber world who were good enough that they helped me in real life problems too and I am still in touch with them by other means. I have met/talked few personally when they were visiting Pakistan. In short you can’t find such thing anymore and this new era keeps making us isolated seamlessly. Unlike America, I live in a society where friends and family gathering is very common. Thanks to our joint-family system but West where we doesn’t find concept of a family has no other choice then making online friends.
I can just hope that we don’t copy west here and rather stick with our own values and traditions which are healthy for our lives.
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