We now live in a digital age where our day-to-day lives are can be maneuvered with the help of apps and computer. Almost everything can be accomplished with a click of a button, from paying bills to catching up with friends on social media. Ah yes, social media. An amazing technological advancement, yes? With tools such as Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, keeping up with everything that’s been going on in the world has never been this easy. Too easy, actually.
In fact, a lot of us have become addicted to these sites that we often find ourselves lost in a virtual world in front of a screen. Many people now consider online connection as a worthy substitute for the physical connection, and are actually becoming more and more oblivious, if not insensitive to what is going on in the “real world”.
I could go on and on with this, but here’s a short comic strip that’ll better point out this modern phenomenon in one of the most vivid ways.