Social Media; the bane or backbone of modern existence. See it how you will, we have ALL been dragged willingly or with tacit reticence into this bizarre age of instant electronic inhuman sources of gratification. When I say all, maybe not everyone on this planet of ours, sure, but if you are reading this blog post… need I say more?

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I happily admit to enjoying the whole social media thing. It’s added a new ‘social’ dimension to my life as what you can only describe as a semi-hermit, albeit a clean and relatively tidy one. I live in quiet existence away from most societal ties, and apart from a few hours between the kid arriving home from school around 5:00pm and his bedtime, I often spend days on end without seeing a soul as my wife works away. In fact, when she and kiddo went to Ankara for a month once, I just talked a couple of times a day to our farm dog outside, and none else during that whole time 🙂 Suits me though. I very much enjoy good company, but not for company’s sake.

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But what I do wonder about is the effect that social media is making to the very fabric of human society. I’m no sociologist, philosopher or even a learned chap, far from it, but when you see some folk completely, and I mean completely, immersed in nothing but their smartphone, tablet and laptop, I kind of wonder where it is taking us, as a species that is. We are, after all, a social creature by nature (even if I am not, lol), so how will this pan out in say 50 years time?

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Yeah I know the following also arrived in my world via social media, namely BookFace, but this short video is really very good, thought provoking and brutally honest. I’d be interested to hear, via this social media of course, what you think – especially if you are under 25, as most of your adulthood will have occurred under this social media umbrella (when compared to us old farts).

Click on the image below – the short video will make you think!

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