The Decadence of Human Interaction

Let's be serious for a second.

I see people walking the streets everyday. Going about with their lives, wondering where they go.
But I see all these people walking and talking on their cell phones or text messaging some friend on the net or on another phone.
Why can't these people talk to each other?
Have we gone as far as to isolate each other from everyone else?
What if the girl or guy you were sitting next to in the subway was someone who had an answer that could change the world?
What if that was the person you were meant to be with?
what if they had answers to questions someone else can't answer?
what if?
I see masses of people moving around as one but each individual is cut off from the other.
I'm not saying people don't talk to each other. I'm saying that people are slowly giving up on the idea to just "talk" to someone.
It is harder for people to meet others outside of chatrooms where one's feelings seem to be protected by the fact that they cannot see eye to eye with that person.
Finding someone has become and increasingly hard concept.
People are less likely to walk up to a person and hit on them then they are of revealing their real names on the net to someone they think they can trust.
I hope people realize that we're making it harder for ourselves by imposing a much demanding "screening process" in order to find a mate. The result of which would be the same (or worse) had you just tried to pick up someone.

People want sex. maybe relationships. Why are we making it harder?

Fuck this post is all over the place.. I'm too tired to structure it. If you get the gist of it, Discuss.

I've seen people in restaurants sitting at the same table but talking to cell phones rather than each other. Sometimes I wonder if they're actually just calling each other. It's funny yet sad.

I forgot
how to speak
to people

>>1
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>>3
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yes i get the gist of it. im guessing you live in a major city. city people close themselves off to the rest of the world because let's face it- why waste time investing on a stranger you'll never see again. city people hate other people and avoid them.

urbanization.. a curse and a blessing. don't you ever wonder what life would be like if you were living in a small village in the country, a cosy little community?

I live in a cosy little community and it's annoying as fuck. See you have to be one of them for it to be cosy really. So I might actually prefer being lost in a sea of apathetic faces.

and let's face it, even if a stranger is genuinely friendly out of the blue current social mores and codes dictate that it is an aberration and weird. you just don't do it. you need to stick to conventions.

well i barely ever talk to stranger, tho i don't mind when people i absolutely don't know come and talk to me. i would probably also talk to random people if i wasn't afraid to bore them. see i live in a big city and people there are incredibly different, i have tons of hobbies, interests and such but i just don't get along with most people because we don't have much in common. once we're done talking about each other's lives we haven't got much to say to each other. i have very few friends with whom i can have lengthy conversation, or even just small talk basically anytime we meet and for an extended period of time. so when i meet somebody totally new, the conversation's usually over after a couple of minutes, a few hours at best. there's no point in talking to somebody for such a short time, especially when you're pretty sure you'll never see them again, and when you can expect the conversation to be perfectly boring for both of you, as you are going to be talking about stuff you've already talked about 100000 times before, like you, your job your kids or whatever.
i've switched schools many times in my life in different countries, and being the new kid, tons of random people came up to talk to me, i've probably kept contact with 1% of those and they were people i would have talked to anyways (hung out at the same places even when we didn't know each other, had the same activities, etc...). the 99% left are people i now have forgotten about and who have probably forgotten about me. kinda feels like a waste of time. when somebody's sitting in front of you in a restaurant, what's the point of talking to him about the weather or some other dumb shit. nobody cares, the guy's probably gonna have more fun reading his newspapers or calling his friends.
my point here is just that i'd rather have an interesting conversation with a friend over the net (i hate phones and cellphones and never use them) than a boring one with a stranger. i don't see the point in talking to someone unless you feel like you really have something to talk about together.

I think it's positive. As long as people keep decrease in amunt I'm happy.

>>1
Sorry dear but I'll never change and this is the way I vastly prefer it, even though sometimes I say otherwise, but that it for reasons that aren't directly stemming from myself, as such it is clout.

>>6
well you do have a point.

people on public transport are scary.

Yes, nowadays people tend to avoid each other. It's probably because we have no confidence in each other. Maybe talking to a stranger seems a waste of time, but sometimes a few words are enough. Like when you say "merry christmas" Even if it's from a stranger, it still could be heartwarming.

>>13
Oh, and I too cannot just walk up to a girl and hit on her, but that's because of my shyness...
Yeah, I know... I'm retarded...

>>14
Actually quite the opposite of retardation, not dealing with her is the wiser choice.
Solitude and isolation are key to individuals who wish to remain as individuals and keep their self in tact as it exists.

>>2
That would be funny, but sad indeed.
>>5 I'm not sure smaller, cosier towns are really the answer since most people in small towns (a least those who belong to the current generation) urge to get out much like >>6

>>7 of course someone talking to you out of the blue is weird. However, would you find it so weird if someone where to start talking to you about something that's just happened?
If there is remotly no interest in what the other subject thinks about something directly related to them, they won't care and will deem you crazy.

>>8
This is pretty much the profile of 95% or more "urbanized" individuals. Including myself.
My answer would pretty much be what I told 7.

>>9
Let's hope there's another way for you to be happy lol

>>10
I'm not asking for people to change because I know I probably can't since I'm one of the people I mention. However it is these reasons you mention that intrige me. Maybe the seclusion of an individual is for his own betterment.

>>12
Only the ones who come up to you and start asking weird questions.

>>13
It's funny you should mention this.
I was once buying groceries. At the check out, I turned around to see who was behing me. I saw an old man to whom I smiled and I turned back. Moments later, he asked if I knew him. I answered that I didn't. He told me it was so rare to see someone smile to a stranger but it felt rather nice.
So should we smile more often? maybe. I don't know. I doubt smiling is an answer. I do believe that acknowledging someone's presence can bringten up their day.

>>14
You remind me of certain Densha Otoko :)
I think most people are shy. Hell, I'm shy and I don't think I could walk up to some girl and start a conversation. However people do find mates who are someone else's friend.
At least people have common grounds.

>>15
are you suggesting that they die alone as well?

>Maybe the seclusion of an individual is for his own betterment.
Absolutely my point.
>are you suggesting that they die alone as well?
Why not? And also, as if such a thing could possibly and truly be avoided by anyone, furthermore, is an individual ever really not alone and comepletely by himself at all times in a way if not more than one way, perhaps a staggering and awe inspiring amount of ways.

hitting on people on the street may be romantic in movies, but is psychotic in real life..

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>>20
guess I better start practicing.

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