I saw this sentence on the Internet yesterday: "How fragile is the relationship between us? As long as I turn off the computer and turn off the mobile phone, you may never be able to contact me again in this life. You see those It's absurd that someone who seems to be close at hand is actually unfamiliar!" After reading it, he sighed.
I have to admit, we've all become the kind of people we used to hate.
Virtual social networks are connected, but real relationships are disconnected. We live in a world full of paradoxes every day. Behind every conversation on Facebook, a photo on INSTAGRAM, or a small video in a circle of friends, there is a desire to connect with people. People rely on the virtual world because of their emptiness. Some people go bankrupt for the "goddess" in the live broadcast software, some people chat with strangers on Facebook, some people are willing to ride with strangers, and some people simply fall in love with an invisible ID... We are more and more eager for the advancement of technology , because it allows us to harvest "civilization" more effortlessly.
This relationship is like a kite string, you come and I go, as if within reach. But in fact, there is not much intersection with each other. Once the line is disconnected, it is just a passerby. So people have to go back to the greater emptiness again, looking for the next cycle.
At the same time, what is happening in reality? You become more and more estranged from the so-and-so around you; you become relatively silent with your family; you care more about new friends in WeChat than old friends in your address book; you prefer to like in Moments instead of saying "you're great" to him .
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In the movie "HER", Samantha, the incarnation of artificial intelligence OS1, has a charming voice, saying "SWEETHEART" to countless lonely men at the same time every day. This softness captured the heart of the frustrated man Theodore. This feeling of self-righteousness, not being understood by others, and even being doubted by oneself, ultimately brings deeper loneliness.
I believe that similar scenes are played out every day: the female anchor you are infatuated with suddenly left the live broadcast platform one day; the netizen you have been chatting with has inexplicably cancelled her account; the female netizen you deeply love confesses to you that she is actually It's a boy... You seem to have lost your love, but what do you think is lost, does it really exist?
"There are two ways to wither the spirit of culture, one is Orwellian - culture becomes a prison, and the other is Huxley - culture becomes a burlesque" - 2011, American author Nicholas In "Entertainment To Die", Al Postman criticized the impact of television on human society. Bozeman must not have imagined that in just a few years, smartphones would replace TVs. It may be an exaggeration to say "mental withering", but the revolution brought by smartphones is like the sweet and sour pork loin that we know will make you fat or eat, and it has indeed brought us too many good and bad things.
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We are not pure anymore because of mobile phones. You go on a tour and stop focusing on the scenery. What I care more about is whether the photos of PO tourists in the circle of friends are liked; if you go to the music festival, you will no longer be able to devote yourself to the whole process. From the start of the show, you've been holding up your phone to take pictures, figuring out how to edit the coolest text. You go to dinner, no longer to taste delicious food, the focus becomes whether you can take a beautiful food photo.
No one reads books on the subway; no one wants to get to know the people around them on an overnight train. Everyone is looking at their phone, not to mention the scene we must have experienced: a rare gathering of friends, all of whom are smirking at the phone with their heads down, not sure if they are really addicted to the phone, or just trying to escape from their friends Face to face conversation.
Admittedly, we all hate that. We want to change, but we refuse to change.
Mobile phones hide too many secrets from us, and they are becoming more and more "heavy", which makes us "hate but can't live without it". Last year's "Perfect Stranger" blew up the question that many people have in common: Do you dare to share your mobile phone black box with your lover? I don't think most people dare. I am a person who is very sensitive to personal information, even some innocuous chat records, I do not want to be peeped by outsiders, it will make me feel very uncomfortable. All our hidden secrets about ourselves are in our phones. The password of the salary card, the uncontrollable chatting, the unspeakable eccentricities, even the photos without the beautiful pictures and the false weight... I once thought that if one day all the mobile phones in the world suddenly stopped. Explosion, then the terror may be no less than a natural disaster.
It also happens frequently. You decide to stop and read the book for a while, but it doesn't take long for you to be attracted by the red dot on WeChat. So you open WeChat and reply to two messages, check the new comments in the circle of friends, and like a few interesting friends. When you come back to your senses and have forgotten where you read, you start over with a hint of remorse, until the voice of receiving the push sounded again.
WeChat users exceeded 800 million at the end of last year, and everyone is striving to be noticeable. You can't control yourself, and you can only be constantly attracted by new and interesting things, resulting in less and less time for yourself.
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I was woken up by a push button in the morning, and then I used a taxi app to call for a special car, and I read the latest news on the road. At noon, choose a well-reviewed restaurant from Dianping, or simply order an exquisite takeaway from Meituan. Before eating, choose an angle and take a photo, and then post the food pictures edited with VSCO on INSTAGRAM. When you get off work, you decide to ride home healthy and choose a shared bicycle. It made you a little uncomfortable without looking at your phone all the way, so when you got home, you spread out on the sofa and continued to brush up on the circle of friends.
This is the convenience that mobile phones provide us, and it is also proof that mobile phones are invading our lives. When I think of watching "Mechanical Enemy" when I was a child, people rely on the convenience provided by robots, and then they are gradually replaced by robots. Finally, they can only make up their minds to destroy this "utopia". The age of intelligence is like a new "utopia", and your personal privacy and information are no longer secret. Data companies control everyone's secrets and can make them public at any time if the need arises.
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The popularity of "Little Forest" last year once aroused people's desire to "return to the mountains and forests". Everyone wants to be like Hashimoto's sister, leave the mobile phone and the Internet, and go to a small mountain village to grow vegetables and cook. Not long ago, several friends also reposted a Weibo saying "I want to go back to the era without smartphones". What was the age without smartphones? Although it has not been a few years, it seems that it is so far away that it is about to be forgotten. Back then, people fell in love clumsily, focused more easily, cherished more, and didn't seem to like to miss appointments as much as they do now.
It can be seen that everyone is still quite resistant to being occupied by mobile phones in their lives. I've never heard anyone persuade others to "play more with their phones". Moreover, more and more people are trying to "leave" it temporarily. The following are some successful experiences from the Internet:
Tea**:
I always felt that there are many things that can be replaced by mobile phones. Until I lost the charger two days ago, the mobile phone became a decoration, and I felt like I was walking in this world like a primitive man. superior. But it was also during the time when my mobile phone was out of power that I began to feel that life was starting to become better. I began to do housework, read, listen to music, and finished paintings that had been put on hold for a long time. Start calm thinking.
Mirror:
I went to repair my phone a few days ago. I didn’t have a phone for one day, so I finished reading a book that had been on hold for a long time in Starbucks next to the Apple store. The efficiency made me feel that I had become better.
Listening to my classmates talk about their CEO, the BOSS of a Fortune 500 company, who has never used a smartphone until now, but it does not affect his social life, life and career at all. In fact, if you are strong enough, you don’t need those conveniences provided by mobile phones at all. Since life is the inspiration for all technological products, the lack of technological products must be able to find a way to make up for it from life. I forgot who said that "the Internet has given the mentally handicapped a chance to become an advanced person."
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I have to say that I am also a beneficiary of mobile phones. My work and my financial resources are closely related to mobile phones. If one day the phone goes out of business, I will also be among the first unemployed. But I've also tried to step away from my phone and the internet for a while because I wanted to try it out: if I could do more without my phone.
It is often difficult at the beginning, and some friends can't hold on for two days. It was really hard, like pulling a turtle out of its shell. But you have to try and touch your potential. It can be one night at the beginning, then 24 hours and 48 hours... If you are worried that someone is looking for you, you can leave a function to answer the phone, or don't leave it at all, because most of this worry is superfluous.
Of course I would not suggest that you abandon your mobile phone forever and become a primitive man. We should not refuse the progress brought by technological development. It's just that it should be under your control, not the other way around.
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This article was first published on the WeChat public account Shadow Film Museum (sadmovie2017)
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