"There is loneliness again in the future, that insipid, useless life again." (Fyodor Mihailovich Dostoyevsky, White nights)
And who would have thought that in the future, children would recognize their mothers on their tablet and phone screens without seeing their faces… (Esra Canpolat)
After-dinner tea To have a drink, sit on the sofa with the best angle to the TV, either watch TV and/or follow up on social media in detail. If television is not a good option, you can play games with a computer or tablet, follow the daily news, fiddle with the photo gallery to see which photo's #hashtag (keyword) ) may be decided to be added as tbt (Throw Back Thursday), or never before, a photo of how happy and beautiful you are can be shared via social media by taking a quick selfie.In fact, if you look back 30 years ago, these activities that we have turned into routine activities can be shared. You will see people who will never understand.
In the very recent past, human beings have encountered many concepts such as technology, internet, computers, tablets, smartphones, television, digital games, social media, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. We, who hosted many of them before we even had a chance to evaluate all these innovations, have made these technologies that come to our house as guests by placing them in the head corner and making them our closest ones. Among all these innovations, mobile phones or smart phones are the most easily accessible and portable ones for us, while the internet has become one of the sine qua non of these devices. The rate in the statement “it happened” was 80.7% in 2017 data and 83.8% in 2018 data (TÜİK,2016;2017;2018). Considering that 94.9% of Turkey's population consists of individuals who use the internet almost every day or at least once a week, according to the first quarter data of 2016, and that social media ranks first among internet usage purposes and see how much social networking sites are in our lives (TÜİK, 2016). In this context, it is necessary to think about the pathological consequences of being so close to the internet via smart phones and the intense use of social media. One of the problems that can be considered pathological is "Sociotelism", a concept that will be considered popular at the beginning of recent periods. So what is this sociotelism? Sociothelism is a disorder that we can encounter frequently and may even be involved in ourselves without being aware of it: It is a situation in which an individual spends time with his/her smart phone rather than interpersonal communication in a social environment. The English equivalent of Phubbing means simply ignoring the people around because of the interest in the smartphone (Karadağ et al., 2016). The fact that smart phones facilitate internet access and can host many applications threatens people in terms of internet addiction as well as social media, game and even application addiction; which is the best proof that sociotelism actually consists of a multidimensional structure, not a one-dimensional structure.
While people were ignoring the people around them, what happened to the people who were actually around? Where are they now? Maybe they are where they have always been, but for sociotheists who have turned into addicts, they are now just a dry crowd. No matter how many people are around, a sociothelist refuses to communicate, ignores those around them, and places the virtual environment he created for himself above his real life. In case of phone deprivation, anxiety, worry (Park, 2005), impulsivity (Billieux, Van der Linden & Rochat, 2008) and some states of arousal (Leung, 2008) occur. After all these feelings are experienced, it is quite normal for people to experience situations such as fear, isolation and loneliness, and subsequently to experience disorders such as identity problems and depression. By isolating themselves from the large groups they have, people damage their social commitments and find themselves in a meaningful place in the groups they have. (Mesch, 2001; Valkenburg & Peter, 2009; Shen & Williams, 2011); This drives them into a vacuum.
Owning a phone, feeling as if there is nothing more valuable than it in the world (Türk Telekom, 2008*; as cited in Karadağ et al., 2016) and having a fun/good time by almost integrating with it provides satisfaction in the short term. And even if it makes you feel that you don't need a social environment, we will be able to understand its long-term effects when the “App Generation”** reaches their 60s and 70s. And finally, a piece of advice with lots of commas: Before you experience that the lives you think you have under control are beyond your control, that you don't even have a real life left, that you don't have a real structure to feel that you belong to, that you have lost both your self-respect and your people's respect, come instead of #NoFilter your photos. let's make it into our lives and live our lives as they are, with all its naturalness.
* An article about 90% of teens reporting the item they fear losing most in life as their smartphone,
** A book by education professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis, The book also includes analyzes of a seven-year research program examining the effects of the digital world on children and youth.'
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