Message to Humanity: Social Media has created cowards of you

Before the times of social media face to face communication was practically the only way of interacting with other people. If you wanted to say something to someone you had to confront them and bring it to their attention. Social media has definitely made us more social but at the cost of human contact. We are social beings and we thirst and crave for the attention of others. But we have traded physical communication with others for communication behind a phone or computer screen. Here are a couple of issues that has completely destroyed face to face contact with other people thanks in part to social media. If you're reading this it's because you know that something is very wrong with modern communication. Why? Because you feel it and you know it to be true.

Social Media makes us less confident
Texting, messenger, chatting have replaced phone calls. Calling people and actually listening to someone's voice is no longer sufficient. Whole entire conversations are communicated through texting. How about replacing texting with writing a book or blog for a change. The act of approaching someone either to ask them out on a date or even approaching someone to confront them about a pressing issue is no longer done face to face. We hide behind the screen of a phone and message through social media. It takes a lot of confidence to approach someone and bring up an issue. It can be very uncomfortable to express your feelings with someone whether it be romantic or maybe an issue that they have brought upon you. Regardless, the act of communicating face to face to bring up issues with people has been replaced with a simple text.

Ghosting
As if face to face communication isn't enough anymore for this modern age of lost humanity we can't muster up enough bravado to express to other people that we don't want to see them anymore so we simply vanish into thin air. An act called GHOSTING. With no explanation, usually very sudden they disappear. You can send them as many messages as possible trust me they won't respond. The only way to get a hold of them is to track them down and confront the issue in front of them.

The solution
In an article titled "The Top 5 Regrets of The Dying" (Click Here for article) highlights people's regrets on their last moments of their lives. One of those regrets was...

"I wish I had the courage to express my feelings."

People suppressed their feelings in order to achieve peace and avoid confrontation with others. This only creates an existence of holding back what is truly calling from within to come out. When we suppress within, we live a life of neglect and never really become what we were meant to be. Therefore, the only solution is to build courage and approach the person face to face (assuming distance isn't an issue). It will be uncomfortable. But in the end, you will feel better that you did. You will feel so good about yourself that you expressed your feelings. That's what it takes and it's the only solution. Keep in mind that courage doesn't mean the absence of fear...it means acting in the presence of fear.

Coach Cano