Devices are making us zombies
no longer introvert or gregarious
nor even hilarious …
mindlessly absorbed on devices
Scant face to face communication
less meaningful connections
more angst and anger
nationalism on the rise
Real relationships and community
in flux and disintegrating fast
as we relinquish our power
oblivious to authenticity
As social media blinds us
to those in real life need
constantly fed fake news
lost the ability to discriminate
No longer thinking for ourselves
soul destroying, heart breaking
we all need to wake up
take time out from devices
Learn to listen and interact
question and think things through
check your facts, get smart
listen to your own good heart!
word of the day – gregarious
aroused 
How well you attempted the prompt with perfect and true situations going on
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so true kate! agree 100 percent with you! ❤
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So true!
As I’ve shared before, WP is the only social media thing that I do online. I think people think me a dinosaur because I don’t want to FB, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. I just enjoy blogging. 🙂
Ha! I’ve met real zombies 😉 who are more fun than people who have their nose stuck in their phone, or other devices, all the time, always checking all of their social media sites. 😀
HUGS!!! 🙂
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they do it constantly even when they are supposed to having a coffee and chat with you they are glued … so rude!
wow where did you meet the zombies?
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Indeed! Well said.
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I actually agree we are retreating into a world into ourselves
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ourselves and our devices that are gathering every single eye twitch and much other information about our interests and locations …
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See our devices meant to link us socially to the outside world instead leads us to forget the art of conversation, of spontaneous meet ups and in fact makes us more lonely.
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very lonely and I believe more superficial as many create an on-line persona that has little to do with their reality 😦
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Beautiful & so true…it breaks my heart to see us so ruthlessly being turned into zombies…taking breaks is the key to gaining control of our precious lives again.
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thanks for adding your voice, thought it would resonate after your poem about people exercising on their devices being immune to their real life surroundings 😦
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Very nice post, Kate and the picture is apt with your words. Today these gadgets have made us crazy.
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Thanks to all smart devices that even in a crowd ……we stand as loners
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Excellent, Kate! So dang true, indeed! 🙂
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I think social media has gotten a bit out of control, and I’m sick of the news. I thought your piece nailed it on the head! Awesome! 🙂
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So true.. agree with you!
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Yes, I’m an extrovert but I’m reacting to phone intrusion and constant people, over stimulous even for me.
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Bitter truth.The poem is excellent.Recently I myself realised that social media is engulfing me,so I took a social media detox.And this has given me back my precious time.And now I utilise it for purposeful things😇.
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a detox sounds most sensible but then so do your posts … you have real talent and passion so keep sketching and reach for your dreams 🙂
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your opinion here is well stated in prose.
At first I thought maybe you were being too harsh on social media and possibly missing the connection we still have via online stuff – but then I chilled and realized my head might be in the clouds and there is a lot of truth here
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agreed it’s a connection I have on WP but then I ration my time here … others have numerous social media outlets and are quite addicted … in that they don’t know how to take time out until they are forced to by burnout 😦
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oh you said that right – burn out is no bueno – and I sometimes have to watch it even with drawing boundaries!! ha
anyhow, here’s to keeping on finding balance as needed….
🙂
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