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Communication overload

The Internet and mobile phones have created a very unique situation. Children growing up in this digital age - when they first find out about how easy it is to stay in touch with their friends - all the time - end up discovering that when they meet there is nothing to talk about because they have already said all that was to be said - together they are moping and scratching their heads wondering what to talk about - however they learn very quickly not stay in touch at all and only talk with each other when they meet.
The biggest disaster of all are family pictures. A baby a barely born and his (or her) first moments are instantly recorded and sent - in fact a several hours long video are sent particularly by new parents. Pictures and videos of engagements and weddings are not only very boring but in order to see all of them will take several hours, but no one has the time or the inclination to see.
Such things were thrilling in the beginning - now they have eventually become tedious. This is the case with every invention. Gradually take them for granted and wonder what how people could be without them when they were not invented. At one point sending and receiving SMS was considering really great - now they have become irrelevant.
This communication overload has not changed the attitude of people - every invention loses its novelty and wait for the next new development.
Perhaps I would be delving in the world of fantasy that the entire life of a person is recording and stored in a flash drive or something new - would that information be worth anything? Perhaps for people in the in the distant future. Does scale of communication make us better people - it is doubtful.
We have already become exhausted with too many channels on TV - no one watches them, because TV stations tend to repeat everything they show - so why bother watching on its listed time. Again certain TV shows are interesting but are not aired at the right time, so people go ahead and buy DVDs of entire seasons of that show - no one is time bound. It may not be long that when people would not rely on DVD and DVD players to watch their favourite shows, they will be in digital video players -whatever they are called. So one can cram hundreds of shows and TV and film shows in them. Even these will cause communication overload, because there is not enough time to see them. TV, computers, the Internet, video players, music players, mobile phones and video games all are begging for attention - what is one to do? We buy these gadgets yet we never have the time to use them.

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