It's no secret that technology had aided humanity in staying connected to one another in some way or another. It used to be, you would have to write letters or go visit the person you wanted to talk to but with the digital age, all you have to do is send a text message. You don't even have to do that if you do not want to. You can simply go on Facebook and see what they have been up to lately. Digital stalking? Nope. When a person puts their business out to the public, anyone can look at it and this can quickly become dangerous because stalking is an actual thing. Luckily, we also have preventive measures like privacy settings. Now we can check up on someone without them even knowing we are which sounds kind of creepy when you really think about it.
So let us say hypothetically that the internet died, like the whole thing, no email, no Facebook, etc. Let us also say that all of the radio towers also died at the same time. So now you have no internet and no phone, but you want to talk to your grandma who lives 500 miles away, what do you do? Before the advent of messaging and even email, we had actual mail from a mailman, remember them? Back even further and you had communities that were close knit, everyone knew everyone's business and no one lived more than a mile or two away but when technology like email was invented, it allowed people to move away further and further. If there ever was a technological crisis like the one I theorized we would all be screwed. Honestly, I would be screwed if I ever had to go to jail for some strange reason because I have 0 numbers memorized that also goes for street addresses. I would even argue that an unintended consequence of social technology has been that it has made us all a bit shyer and awkward. I am guilty myself of playing with my phone in awkward social situations.
Some people have no trouble making friends and striking up a conversation with a stranger and I envy those people because I am not. Sometimes it is good to just unplug yourself for an hour or two, go for a walk or something. I hiked 6 miles last weekend and it was a very enjoyable experience granted I still used my phone to listen to music but whatever that doesn't count. The moral of the story is, stop reading this, get off of the computer and go memorize some phone numbers and street addresses
