"I don't care what you say" ....is an often used phrase in today's world and yet most of the people are so eager to know what others think and feel about them .Other's conceptions and misconceptions about our actions, speech, thoughts and emotions form an integral part of our self worth and further self analysis .
Since a major portion of our waking life and our communication happens online through mails , chats , whats app messages, most of it is based on what we come to know through colored reflections , refraction and filters of internet communication .These are both incomplete and grossly inaccurate .
It is dangerous to build the image of a living and thriving human being solely based on internet communication .If more than 70% of complete human communication (content sent to content received in real life ) is through non verbal means ,gestures,tonality,accentuation and disposition,we can hardly get to know a person online .And if we think , we know someone , it is probably our impression of him/her .In most of the cases, it is a superimposition of what we would like to see the person as .
This is also the reason for largely reported cases of real life failures of online relations .
This brings us to another important question and that is how much of our conscious mind and emotions are filled with internet based connections and interactions ? How much of our belief systems, value sets and paradigms of life are built by the inputs we get from our virtual life ?
And if it be so ...are we approximating, oversimplifying and truncating people personalities solely based on these observations ? Can people be actually different from what they seem to be ? Are we unfair to people in making certain impressions of them ?
A complex web of friendships , acquaintances with numerous interactions woven over the platform of world wide web ....seems to be hell of a big illusion ...
Is it time to get real ??
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