The Innovation of Loneliness

A video that will leave you with chills, you will agree that social media and technology are not meant to be a way of connecting with other people. On a global scale, social media is definitely good but understanding and obeying some kind of balance is becoming a serious problem. People are spending hours mesmerized by what’s happening a tiny screen rather than living their lives.  We’re simply not living, we are in a place that isn’t in the now, we are too busy at looking at picture of from the night before, checking the status updates of friends and busy taking selfies all night long. This video is a awake up call that social media, is not about connection but about isolation from reality.

       The Innovation of Loneliness is a fantastic short film that explores how social media is not a way of being connected to friends and people, it’s isolating us from what’s going on in the real world and impairing our communication skills. Being in the here and now, talking and conversing with people in real time is something we need to emphasize to our youth. I see the world stuck in the elsewhere, looking down at their phones and simply not living their lives. It’s important as parents, adults and educators to fix this problem of what social connection actually means. It’s our responsibility to teach children, the power of real connection, looking people in the eye, shaking hands and hugging an actual human being.