With the elements of a fast lifestyle .. reduces social relations .. and imposes isolation with its virtual links

[Love Pulse]

Day after day, the fast lifestyle and the many modern technologies that have invaded our society become a tool to keep people apart, and many of the social concepts that used to exist previously have changed, so that the morning shines of the neighbors are absent, and social relations are confined to the narrow family, and even among them there is a sort of isolation as a result of reality. For example, Umm Bahaa, a 40-year-old housewife, is browsing her Facebook page on her mobile phone, and her day starts posting a nice picture of a landscape attached to the phrase: “Good morning”, greeting her friends and neighbors who are also on Social networking site, to start with them "electronic Subhia" did not familiar with when the cup of coffee was present in the "Lemat al-Niswan" with its neighbors in realistic sessions, and witness to the real links between neighbors no longer exist in our society for many different considerations, so that the links of people and neighbors look destined to form New, and a state of social isolation governed by the conditions of reality, and the many changes that have taken place in the Syrian society such as travel, mobility, and the introduction of modern technologies, in addition to the difficult life conditions, and the diary of excessive high prices that limited these links, to become isolation reality !.

No visits!

The images we encounter in the community, which confirm the decline of social activity, and the links between people due to many factors, for example, Louay, a young forty, talking about a visit that some friends have been waiting for more than a year for his home in a residential suburb of Damascus, but did not even Now, as a result of many factors, the most prominent, as he spoke, after his home from the city center, and the difficulty of transportation to him, and adds: What took away this reality that we live today from what we knew earlier from the social life, and the exchange of visits, and the links between the neighbor and his neighbor, and between a friend and his friends, was friendly Simple life was far from overcrowded and unreliable Ala, a young 20-year-old, talks about a busy time in his diary, not time for meetings, or exchanges of visits with his friends. He says that he is replacing this by communicating with them electronically through various means such as social networking sites and the many chat programs that have become accessible. Everyone on their mobile.

Cool encounters

The social isolation that has become a reality in society does not stop in these cases only. Examples are also repeated of neighbors who do not know their neighbors. They do not exchange greetings with them in the morning or evening when they meet. According to Abu Yasir, a man who misbehaved some of his neighbors when his eyes converge with his eyes, they do not exchange him. Peace or speech, he says: the unfortunate reality that we have become when you and your neighbors become strangers, but it justifies: the movement may have been a lot, and the displacement caused to many Syrian families by terrorism in their areas, a reason for where we are today, in contrast to other examples that appear Still trying hard to erase Abu Ahmed, for example, one of the people we interviewed, is keen to maintain a weekly ritual on Friday by meeting his family and friends, attending breakfast once, and family walks in a public park one day. Rabei once again, this man says: no matter how long our lives and complexity, and no matter what the transformation of them, the social links, and the exchange of meetings between friends or family, is indispensable in our Eastern society.

Threat to life

It seems that the decline of social relations among members of Syrian society can be explained by many factors and reasons, most notably, according to Dr. Ibrahim Melhem, sociologist at the University of Baath, the introduction of modern technology and social networking sites in the lives of Syrians, and turned most of them to new patterns of interaction, what It has necessarily reduced the previously known traditional forms of social relations, such as exchanging visits between family, relatives and friends, and complements: one of the most important additional reasons for the decline of these relations, the crisis suffered by the Syrians in the past years, and the catastrophic consequences at the national level. After the migration of some Syrians and alienation, both at home and abroad, which led to the creation of a state of retreat towards the family, and mistrust of the unknown environment for some elements of society when their environments change, in contrast Melhem cites many recent scientific studies confirm that spending happy time with parents And friends reduce the risk of premature death by 50%, according to these studies, the weak social relations is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and the decline in social life is equivalent to suffering from alcoholism, and comes the importance of social relations in that they increase in human health better than vaccines that prevent infection As a human being is created to live with others, and that isolation from people causes psychological and health diseases, so Melhem emphasizes the need to spend time with family and friends, and work to encourage the social life that we knew previously.