This article**[Beijing**].
How long has it been since you had a good conversation?A survey of UK office workers found that 70% of millennials feel anxious when the ** sounds. A study in the United States of 22 to 37-year-olds also confirmed that up to 81% of people in this age group are anxious about ringtones. There are ** who describe its image as "caller phobia", and many netizens have claimed it, "It's me who is right".
In recent years, the Internet technology has accelerated its iteration, online social networking is highly developed, and direct dialing has long been no longer the first choice for people's daily contact. Everyone is becoming more and more accustomed to online chatting, work and pulling groups, and ask "are you there" first on WeChat, and some people have summed up a set of contemporary social etiquette, and do not call ** or voice unless necessary. Different from online socialization, there are emojis to enliven the atmosphere, there is a buffer for considering the words, and even a "withdraw" button, and the call contact belongs to a real-time voice dialogue, whether it is the other party or yourself, all emotions and reactions are the most direct, too late to modify, once you say it, it cannot be withdrawn. Essentially, call-phobia, stemming from the fear of uncertainty, reflects people's avoidance of a sense of loss of control in the moment.
Some say it's people becoming vulnerable. Right or wrong, it's up to you. But what is certain is that the ever-changing medium is changing and shaping people's social habits and lifestyles. The media situation theory points out that changes in the media will inevitably lead to changes in the social environment, and changes in the social environment will inevitably lead to changes in human behavior. From face-to-face conversations, to the advent of communication, to the introduction of online tools, with the introduction of more and more media, the way of communication between people has become more convenient. However, when instant text sending becomes possible, the sudden sound of ** becomes "offensive";When all kinds of emojis dominate the screen, the real facial expressions are hidden ......To a certain extent, while technology continues to add to us, human beings unconsciously subtract themselves and slack off the training of certain abilities.
Every tool has two sides, and so does the medium. Taking chat as an example, social tools such as WeChat are very popular, indicating that it meets the needs of society. You can send and chat anytime and anywhere, and you can choose between voice and text, which greatly reduces the cost of social interaction, and the relaxed scenes created by emojis and text editing make it possible for offline "I people" and online "e people". After all, it is a good thing to update and upgrade the media form, so that all kinds of people can fully enjoy the joy of communication. In the final analysis, it's not a big deal not to like to fight, of course, if it really reaches the level of "fear", it may also need to be adjusted. After all, when we rely too much on a certain medium, or even leave a certain scene, we panic, which is more or less "unhealthy".
Technological development is changing with each passing day, and it is impossible for us to return to a "primitive society". But no matter what time it is, a rule that must be kept in mind is that no matter how advanced the means of science and technology are, they must keep the tools and human life, emotions, and thinking at a safe margin. Overcome the inertia of thinking and grasp the initiative in life, so that we can live our own wonderful lives in the larger world.
Do you have a "phobia of callers"?
Beijing** (ID: beijing daily) commentator Tian Wenzhi.