Today we are watching an emerging generation that seem more skilled than any generation before in the art of the internet. It is a common joke that “you should ask a teenager” if you are stuck on how to use the internet and text language such as wot,wen, and cani do it, is becoming more of a frustration to employers and parents all around the world. The phrase “kids of today” may be a bit of a humorous joke to say for somebody professing to be an authoritarian adult, but when does the joke stop and the grim reality that children are becoming more consumed by the virtual world start?
Although networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook are in some respects a great way to bring people together, it does seem to bring with it an alternate reality where people who fear confrontation and or rejection a great way to say what they want to say behind the protective shroud of the monitor.
As an emotional intelligence coach, I see people everyday who are battling with their fear of rejection and will do anything to avoid that gripping physical and stressful pain, when the words NO appear in their direction in conflict, and unfortunately the internet seems to offer the protective shroud that would otherwise force them to face their fear and stand strong.
If people are able to avoid their fear and stay in the ignorant world of avoidance, where will this end? and to what detriment? If a person does not learn the art of facing fear and more importantly their fear of rejection by working with others (to realise that they are in fact desirable to others), how can they ever learn how to truly love, after all is true love nothing but the ability to sacrifice?
The internet is an amazing gift to the world, but unless people start to wake up and realise that only through genuine human contact and standing strong can they create a balanced mind and emotional life, the world is slowly going to become introverted and dependent, to the point where anybody who desires to control others can and more unnervingly will!
Yes it is scary to get out there and face rejection, but unless we do our physical minds will decrease in creativity and the wealth of the masses will belong only to a few. If the mind becomes all but useless through fear growing and mutating into all the other neural connections, then whoever that type of mind belongs to can and will be controlled by the next available person. Yes to some this may sound paranoid but unless we use our mind and keep a balance between each and every social interactions, sooner or later, one person will always want control as in the book animal farm by George Orwell.
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