Looking up while looking down

While our real world are slowly growing around us in several aspects such as economic, social, technology and more, the virtual world are developing in a rapid rate too. It is true that we are glued to our smartphones both in public and private nowadays because we cannot escape from the social media due to the desires of  updating ourselves about the most recent news or gossips. However, it is always crucial to be reminded that the Internet and social media should not the focus of our attention in a day and age where everyone put their smartphones in their pockets. Gary Turk had shared his short film to remind us to look up and get a break from the virtual social world. In this short film, along with his inspiring yet sarcasm poem, a love story about the life of a man and woman without the hindrances of social media was told. This short film went viral and had more than 12 million views on Youtube. 

Many of us are not aware that we are getting too much distractions from our gadgets in our daily life and these gadgets are slowly disconnected us from our real world and may eventually ruin our relationships with the people around us. When we look around the most busiest street in the cities, we will find people walking down the sidewalk either has their earphones on or has their eyes fix on that tiny screens that rest on their palms of hands. But, the real problem is none of us think that it is a big deal. These gadgets obsessions could actually get us killed if we are being too distracted and ignoring the real environment around us. For instance, there were people that got hit by the car while they were looking at their phones and not paying their attention to their surroundings.

Moreover, always looking at the information in the small frame may let you ignore the important massage sent to you within the people in your surroundings. Whenever you heard the notification or ring alert from your smartphones, you will automatically respond to it no matter where you are(even in bathroom)and what you are doing (even in the middle of talking with someone)to check the new messages or posts from the social media.  A new word "phubbing" is even created to describe those actions which people are too busy to look at their phones in every moment of their life . Imagine you are talking with a phubber, then you will know the feelings that being ignore as compare to one's smartphone. Here I share an interesting article about how smartphone could actually ruin your personal relationships in your daily life.
http://liveboldandbloom.com/10/relationships/how-smartphones-could-be-ruining-your-relationship

To sum up, I am not telling you to quit the social media and the Internet because I am sure no one can do that in this digital age. I am just telling all of us to try to put down our gadgets and look around the surroundings. Maybe we will some surprising moments and pretty scenery from that. If you are wondering how you can get rid of this mobile obsession, you may want to look at this article.
http://www.gadgetsnow.com/slideshows/7-ways-to-get-rid-of-smartphone-addiction/photolist/53604482.cms

Hope you are free to make good use of your time and share good moments with the people around you without the use of your gadgets.