Are Memes evolving us or ruining our communication skills?
Well hello there world, it has been a decade since my last appearance. what have I done? what I always do. I studied the world around me. As suspected, I have gotten just as addicted to memes as the rest of us. Is this good or bad?
I for one think it's brilliant. We are learning a bee hive mentality. memes are becoming an incredibly fast way of us communicating! instead of talking we can all come to the same conclusion with one picture and a few words. with those two combinations we experience fast and vast emotional reactions. Facebook has even expanded the reaction from just a thumbs up.
what does this help us with? more and more we are discussing our reactions to things with a community of people we have or have not met. this way we form grouped thinking and unfold our responses. With this upgrade from technology we are finding that understanding what we feel comes more naturally. This is great! Since our forefathers (and mothers) of many generations past, human beings have been taught and encouraged to suppress our emotions and control our reactions. This caused whole generations to lack sensitivity and a deeper understanding of our minds, bodies and emotions. For generations a species drawn to community and connection was stunted.
Then Technology came! and what did we do, we showed it exactly what we want! we want connection, community, freedom to search and ask and learn and grow without limitation or judgment! And here is to us getting it right! Well, the judging part is taking a while... but with more posts and memes expressing mental illness and serious issues we are slowly but surely unlearning the toxic trait of judgments our forefathers and mothers cursed us with. talk about breaking generational curses.
Melenials and gen z kids are so judged. to a point where we don't even accept that we are part of this community. but, as melenials we grabbed onto technology and despite being told not to... we shared all of our feelings and deepest darkest thoughts. we created the foundation for true healing.
Being glued to our phones and tablets we don't move and jump around. we focus all of our energy into spreading our message of our needs. we embrace and fight and share, just as family. it is no wonder that people find the internet their safe place. because they don't have an intense fear of expression. yes online bullying was so difficult in the beginning, but we are also learning how we vent and attack people to make us feel better. we have grown emotionally and mentally so much in the last 2 decades than our race has in the last century! and now we fight with each other and don't take as much offence because we have removed the element of our physical form.
Who knew that seeing each other was such a huge problem? we can't see the next person so we cannot judge them based on there looks or the way the sound or smell. In fact none of our sensors come into contact with the other person. just our minds and hearts. Through this, we have learned to be less judgmental and we have pushed ourselves to evolve. Our revolution has just begun and we listened when they said the future is ours. I have faith in us guys. we've come far.
But hey... that's my opinion. Feel free to share yours.
well.... this is buttonGirl.... popping in..... and falling off this coat... peace.
Well hello there world, it has been a decade since my last appearance. what have I done? what I always do. I studied the world around me. As suspected, I have gotten just as addicted to memes as the rest of us. Is this good or bad?
I for one think it's brilliant. We are learning a bee hive mentality. memes are becoming an incredibly fast way of us communicating! instead of talking we can all come to the same conclusion with one picture and a few words. with those two combinations we experience fast and vast emotional reactions. Facebook has even expanded the reaction from just a thumbs up.
what does this help us with? more and more we are discussing our reactions to things with a community of people we have or have not met. this way we form grouped thinking and unfold our responses. With this upgrade from technology we are finding that understanding what we feel comes more naturally. This is great! Since our forefathers (and mothers) of many generations past, human beings have been taught and encouraged to suppress our emotions and control our reactions. This caused whole generations to lack sensitivity and a deeper understanding of our minds, bodies and emotions. For generations a species drawn to community and connection was stunted.
Then Technology came! and what did we do, we showed it exactly what we want! we want connection, community, freedom to search and ask and learn and grow without limitation or judgment! And here is to us getting it right! Well, the judging part is taking a while... but with more posts and memes expressing mental illness and serious issues we are slowly but surely unlearning the toxic trait of judgments our forefathers and mothers cursed us with. talk about breaking generational curses.
Melenials and gen z kids are so judged. to a point where we don't even accept that we are part of this community. but, as melenials we grabbed onto technology and despite being told not to... we shared all of our feelings and deepest darkest thoughts. we created the foundation for true healing.
Being glued to our phones and tablets we don't move and jump around. we focus all of our energy into spreading our message of our needs. we embrace and fight and share, just as family. it is no wonder that people find the internet their safe place. because they don't have an intense fear of expression. yes online bullying was so difficult in the beginning, but we are also learning how we vent and attack people to make us feel better. we have grown emotionally and mentally so much in the last 2 decades than our race has in the last century! and now we fight with each other and don't take as much offence because we have removed the element of our physical form.
Who knew that seeing each other was such a huge problem? we can't see the next person so we cannot judge them based on there looks or the way the sound or smell. In fact none of our sensors come into contact with the other person. just our minds and hearts. Through this, we have learned to be less judgmental and we have pushed ourselves to evolve. Our revolution has just begun and we listened when they said the future is ours. I have faith in us guys. we've come far.
But hey... that's my opinion. Feel free to share yours.
well.... this is buttonGirl.... popping in..... and falling off this coat... peace.
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