Apparently we're over-connected.

No I'm not antisocial, pssh!
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I have a lot of work and studying to finish up tonight but I'm just gonna blog anyway because I know what I wanna blog about. If I delay my blogging, I'll probably forget (I'm damn forgetful). Continuing...

Alright, if you're from my school, you would know that during Encik Hanif's speech, he mentioned about how our generation is over-protective, over-connected, overwhelmed. Right? And I really have to agree there, lol. Social networking has really taken over our lives if you really think about it. You would most likely, have a twitter account, whatsapp, instagram and facebook. I have these four apps, not sure about you guys. Haha.

As much as I'm into social networking, I have to say, I really hate it sometimes. For example, dinner time. It's the time when we're suppose to bond with the family and shits right? But really, how many of us actually put the phones down and talk BEFORE and AFTER the food(not when you're eating but omg, people actually use their phones while eating). I pity my grandparents sometimes because the younger people in the family are using phones and my grandparents are just sitting right there.Then my granpda will purposely take out his Nokia phone and act like us:b haha I also do not like when we're eating and then there's this phone on the table vibrating, that irritates me to the max because I find it rude. Which is why I always keep my phone on my lap or in my pocket. I admit that I use my phone at the dinner table sometimes and when I see other people using it, I realise how rude it is and immediately put my phone down.

Another scenario would be, when I hang with my friends. You know we all go to someone's house to watch movie and stuff. There will be a few antisocial asstards who will use their phones during the movie and ask what happened in the movie once in a while. It pisses me off because, hello, you wanna go to someone's house and hang, but then you're using your phone. Might as well stay at home right, lol. It defeats the whole purpose right?

Why are we so attached to our phones? Why do we need to constantly go on twitter or talk to someone through whatsapp? And if there's nothing much on twitter, or no one to talk to on whatsapp, we play games. This is my theory:

"We're bored" 

We cannot just wait for food to come, we need to do something to fill time whether it's productive or not. And since you're already whatsapping someone, you'll just continue on anyway. I know you constantly refresh your twitter timeline hoping for at least one new tweet to appear, lol. Then when you're bored, you just keep tweeting on and on that you're bored. Do something about it then, "but I'm lazy." Exactly, so shut up and stop complaining. But really, sometimes when you tweet something, no one cares or people just see tweets to be busybody. We're so into twitter like it's our newspaper already, lol. Daily information of other people's lives. But seriously, do you ever wonder why you tweet? If you send me to camp and tell me not to use my phone, sure no problem, maybe once in a while to tell my mum how I'm doing but that's about it. I'm proud to say I'm not very attached to my phone but sadly, I do use my phone at the dinner table sometimes, I use my phone unnecessarily. I'm trying to change my habit. You know when you're over-attached to your phone when you use it to "escape from reality" or your problems. Seriously, I have friends like that and I think that is a terrible way to escape. But you shouldn't be escaping from your problems to begin with. It upsets me that some people need their phones every-freaking-where they go. 

So when you go out with your family whoever, lay off the phone. Use it when you only need it. You're suppose to TALK to someone with your MOUTH. Not through whatsapp when you're only 5 metres away, lol. Seriously, if we keep this up, people will not know how to communicate anymore. I will definitely try to stay away from my phone more often and do more productive things instead. Think about it, why do you tweet? (I also don't know why) Why do you keep refreshing the same damn timeline, when you know only one or two tweets may appear? Lay off the phones man, it's about manners and also not being too attached to a damn object. Some of you may think I'm old-fashioned and may oppose to what I say but in the end, this is what I think. If you don't think social networking is killing our society, fine. But give a good thought about it. 

It doesn't feel the same. Maybe I'm overthinking.

Love Rachel*