Our Shared Reality is Fraying

Its been awhile since Facebook has been around, right… since the end of 2006 right about when the very first I-phone (smartphone) that was launched in India was the iPhone 3G in 2008. This brought about a massive change in our generation and perception of reality. With smartphones social media, came all the uncompromising people with it! What this means, is that, the I-phone generation brought along with it a sweeping generation of people who got glued to using their cell-phones and laptops, living and breathing in a virtual world! Communication became more online and ‘text-based’ rather than spend time in face-to face interaction, because its simple; we just get more time to construct (frame) what we want to say and even get to refine it. There are times when face-to-face interaction can even be too emotional and messy and who wants to get involved in that? The ‘cuddle chemical’ – oxytocin and the ‘pleasure chem...