For better or for worse, human beings are endowed with the ability to speak a language that has always been a stepping stone to understanding and bridging the cultural divide. But, oddly enough, people rarely achieve consensus, thus creating a peck of hassles or constraints of reciprocal understanding and social bonding. I hope nobody will mind me saying that we communicate due to either the necessity of being loved and understood or fear of being alone as long as it's the grim truth and reality of everyday life. Suffice it to say, more and more people are somewhat addicted to using newly created applications that facilitate rapid advancement of bonding and social evolution, though in reality they tend to badly affect our communication skills.
One can't belittle the importance of the opportunities given by the World Wide Web that is on the highest peak of its popularity among the young and the old today, but some of them tend to assert that it's almost virtually the same way of human intercourse when real and virtual communication types are taken into consideration and compared. But the question arises as to whether mobile phones or high tech devices can transmit the piece of soul on long distance without seeing a person's facial expression, his/her look and non-verbal behavior. "Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us", said Regina Brett, an American author, inspirational speaker and newspaper columnist. Moreover, other people say that eyes are the windows to a person's soul, but all those technologies hardly make any progress in conveying real feelings, emotions, thoughts...
