The World Is So Impersonal

It seems somewhat contradictory to write a blog about this subject but I am going to anyway. This is something that has been getting kicked around inside my head for a while. The world and the way our social mediums are developing are creating a less and less personal experience. You see it everywhere. With the obvious advocates like Facebook and Myspace, but it started even before then with e-mail and even the telephone. There was a time where you would have to go and see a person face to face, or in the very least pen a note in order to pass along any correspondence. I believe that required not only more time but more thought. Heavens knows there was no spam mail to worry about back in those days, who had the energy? In this modern day with the internet and the anonymity it provides people are careless and quite frankly reckless in their social communication. The real problems arise when people translate this from the interwebs to the "real world". I think it would do this world a lot of good to slow down and think before typing. Rather than talk on the phone or via e-mail with someone why not go and visit them? It is so much more rewarding to speak face to face with someone, rousing so much more emotion, than to sit and stare at a computer screen. As with most of my topics this is something I feel like I need to personally work on and I hope to do just that, will you?