The Overlooked Effect of Virtual Reality

 13th May 2019

 To do list

Call grandma

Call mum

Call Malone

Linda wedding

Church group meeting

Solpha notation revision

Articles to write

Books to read

Laundry

Work assignment

Kids homework correction

Huduma number registration

Meet ex for closure

Date with Anne

Meeting with psycare

Blood drive with redsplash

..list to be updated...

Incoming call from work

" *hey Vic, we want the PDF formats today, you really lagging behind on that*"

Soon as I switch my mobile data on, messages and notifications start trickling in and all of a sudden...

To do list

Tweets to reply to

Messages to respond to

More calls to make

Followers to follow back

Profiles to update

Mails to read

WhatsApp texts and groups to respond to official and unofficial matters

Friend requests to confirm

... list to be updated...

It's almost as if the mobile data click opens a door to an entire mini universe.

No wonder there's so much faking in this era since we can all hide behind a screen...after all who would know that online image isn't your offline reality.

Obsession with selfies and posts of how "good" life is, got to take a pic of a good meal before you eat it so you can post after.

Obesession with likes and followers make me wonder how many likes is a life worth?

Some people have the two lives synced well into one.

Some people are slaves to their online lives that it overrides their offline needs.

Some people just can't handle social media so they minimise their online presence.

Whatever category you are in, at some point you might have felt that your phones demand for your attention is so strong that it parallels all other needs.

It's as if you have online and offline needs and both must be met.

Meek Mill deactivated his social media accounts, said he needs space.

That's far away, back here at home my grandma and my Nokia keep competing for my attention, so is my spouse and kids but guess who is winning.

In fact, the most common scene in a any sitting these days is people ignoring one another while totally sucked into their phones.

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

Human or humanoid?