Personal Intimacy Not All Gone

I personally think that there are pros and cons to the technology we have now a days. It is bad because there are some people that are so attached to their phones that they don’t often notice everything going on around them and people can lose the intimacy of conversation face to face. But there are other people that use technology in a good way. We are now able to connect with people we would never have been able to before. Maybe some long lost family member can be found or now you can even find your spouse online. Social networking has not completely destroyed the forms of personal intimacy. In some ways it has increased personal intimacy. Increased in ways that if people use it to get in touch with someone to make plans to see them in person it helps keeping in contact with people. There are more long distance relationships because people can keep in contact via text, phone call, skype, or even FaceTime. Having social networking, although has made it easier for people to say things they wouldn’t have normally said because they can either hide behind a computer or phone. Whether this be good or bad it can be an issue with bullying and harassment. With people posting where they are all the time it can also cause issues of stalkers. People are now more likely to be able to find where you located and this is not always good. All in all, social networking is not all bad and has not completely destroyed all forms of personal intimacy. There will always be people that don’t like technology and prefer face to face conversation. I am one of those people. It is nice to have the technology, but I don’t think that it is all gone yet.