The Importance Of How We Connect To People

How we connect to people is different online than it is face to face. Social media allows us to be free to be the person we really are inside without worry about how people perceive us, even when we don 't feel we can be that way in person. For example, I have a couple of really good friends, we have been friends for over twenty years, and we haven 't always lived close to each other. Before we all had regular access to social media, it was hard for us to talk to each other, share things, and keep up on our lives like it had been when we could all walk to each others ' houses. Phone numbers would be lost, addresses would change, and years would go by while I lived out of state, where we didn 't all see or hear from each other. Chance meetings …show more content…
That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die." - E.M. Forster, Howards End (1910) Here, Forster is praising the idea of always being connected to those around you in some way. I believe she is saying that the true value of life is lived when people are connected with each other instead of wasting away in isolation, much like Marcus is saying throughout her article. Words, ideas, and the love for them both are best shared with others who also feel the need to connect, debate, ponder, and discuss them. Social media helps people to find others that are interested in the same things: Potterheads can find other Potterheads, Whovians can find other Whovians, people in the LGBT community can find other LGBT members, dog lovers can find other dog lovers, and bacon afficionados can find other bacon afficionados. People are not relegated to just their family or local community, they can connect with "the beast and the monk" and never be isolated from their fellow