Look Up - Gary Turk

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So look up from your phone shut down the display, take in your surroundings make the most of today. - Gary Turk

If I were to estimate how many times I look at my phone a day I would say about 20,000 times. Social Media has become a huge part of my life, but am I actually social? I have a lot of friends on Facebook, but why do I still feel lonely? I have people interacting with me on Twitter, yet I still feel alone? Is social media really making us "social" or is it making us "unsocial? I've been too dependent on my phone that all my conversations are made from a scene and not through physical interactions.

Gary Turk's spoken word film entitled "Look Up" made me rethinking Social Media as a whole. He describes how we are spending too much time on social media that we shut the real world out. We depend on Social Media that we take things for granted. It was easier when we were children, where we would go outside and play with other kids, ride bikes, play hopscotch, etc. Social Media has overrun our society that we don't seem to interact with one another anymore; we should put down our phones and embrace the world we live in, because we might not know that something exciting might happen today.