Social

While watching 2 documentaries(BBC&National Geographic) on North Korea,I thought about the irony of the term "social"- how it's being heard everyday now and thus completely distanced itself from a rather somber connotation.

In this time and era, I feel like calling someone a "socialist" would be some kind of a witty compliment-implying that the person is a "socialite," who's got some 1,500 friends.

(Facebook, of course, and yes, I think if someone asks me how many friends I've got, I think I'd answer "about 300.")

"Social" is definitely being overused-

Everything is done together- shopping, investing, reading, browsing, e-mailing, you name it.

It's ironic how the more "social" we become,

we in fact become more uncomfortable talking with the person sitting across our lunch table.

Surprisingly, North Korea's attack on South Korea this time has not affected the people's mentality as much as it should. The nation remains rather calm.

Noting the calmness, one of my colleagues said it must be due to the media not covering the issue enough in order to prevent any unnecessary fear among people.

I think the media is covering it enough, but I think we as a generation have simply grown more indifferent, apathetic, and simply put, selfish, toward other people and the society. A hardened heart occupied with oneself and his little smartphone. The sense of reality may be thinning.

While we've become busy Social-networking, we may have forgotten the real people suffering from the trauma of distorted form of Socialism, (although the "purer" version of the regime has never been proven to work in reality anyway)who are literally doing everything together in real life, not just on the computers.