Once upon a time, when I was so thrilled to the fact that my cousin was about to open a Facebook account for me. Guess what? We went to a cafe to do the whole registration with me having to first create a Yahoo mail account to get an address to be able to register on Facebook so that I could start mingling and connecting with people on there as this was the main and popular platform trending back then as at 2009 or something.
Even though it's all a smooth process now with phone numbers and few details for registration but it shows how high the rate at which technology keeps increasing the conversion of activities to basically been an online thing.
Back in the days of our forefathers and foremothers, don't even let us go far and let's just stay on our grandparents era, when there weren't social media platforms or any dating sites, when people in neighborhood, churches or family members have to be the matchmaker.
My people will call them alarina which means a third party or intermediary. He or she would be the one to intercede between both parties after matchmaking them together and they seemed to like each other till they get engaged, meeting themselves and family members till the final marriage rites are done.
Unlike now where even if you are an introvert who doesn't go out to be able to meet with people to connect let alone date, you can simply just sign up on one of the verified dating sites and luckily you may get what you're looking for.
Away from the days where you have to necessarily and compulsorily travel miles because of a job interview because you proceeded to the next application level when you are not certain yet if you will get the job except for just being positive minded about it.
Away from the time when job seekers have to go from one street to another looking for vacancy placards here and there when they could actually go on job sites where vacancies floods into like sapele water, lol.
Away from those days when you have to travel miles away to attend a few hours business presentation or bidding when they can be done online, using various forums like zoom, Google meet, Teams etc. It looks so amazing doing all these so easily at just the cost of an Internet data in place of risking life while transitioning, time and stress.
Can we say these conversion to online basically is bad by making an introvert fixed in his shells and not been convinced to step out to connect with people? Or job seekers who manages to keep fit and well with the little money they have with themselves to start taking vehicles or bike from one place to another looking for vacancy placards or entering one company or the other for physical interview?
Truly, there are pros and cons to things in life but for the fact that these things have their little bad sides, we can't still neglect or ignore the many pros they give and offer us.
The easiness of sorting whatsoever it is from the comfort of one's home is like living a life of paradise most times.
For me, I know as much as doing things online gets better to ease our burden, the cons also may rise but never to an extent of doom. It only depends on our level of reliability cos even as it is, there are still some job roles that most organizations requests for a physical interview even after a virtual one which simply means that doing things physically is still not Overrided as high as virtual means is nowadays.
In Summary and Conclusion, it has made life better from the past, it is making it better now and will only still get more better in the future.
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Everything has it downside and that's why we must find ways to strike a balance between our online presence and physical interaction or activities .
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That's another point anyway. Even if it might be hard but we should ensure to strike a balance.
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Well, it's normal with life for things to have both good and bad sides. In the end, we weigh the advantage and disadvantages and if the advantages are better, then we just go for it regardless of the bad side
Yeah exactly. It even depends on the we the users just like Vickoly said that we will be the one to strike the balance so one doesn't have to override or the other.
In a situation where you and your close friend or relation lives in the same town but all you both ever did was to communicate through social media in a whole year. So that really doesn't sound right