TECHNOLOGY/SOCIAL MEDIA/MENTAL HEALTH
How We Are Sacrificing Our Wellbeing Over the Expense of Technology
I yearn for a simpler time before the advent of technology and social media
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5 min readJul 2, 2021
“It is okay to own a technology, what is not okay is to be owned by technology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
I was recently streaming episodes of the famous 1990’s sitcom Friends and found myself reminiscing about a time before the advent of smartphones and social media.
Life was less complicated and infinitely better. In fact, those of us who grew up without smartphones can genuinely say we were happier without them and did not miss having the technology at all.
We had ample time for everything from meeting friends face-to-face to spending time with loved ones to enjoying nature.
Sadly, today, people are more disconnected from the actual world and nature than at any other time in history.
