the lies of technology
information is not connection
Seeing your friends' reels and posts on social media is not the same actually communicating and connecting with them. An analog equivalent would be a bulletin board with a "we got married! we moved! we had a kid!" poster tacked onto it. You learn a new fact about their life, maybe write a "congrats, so happy for you!" comment on it, and move on. It's not connection and it's not relationship. We evolved to be physically near each other, to look each other in the eye, hear each other's voices, and give each other hugs of congratulations or condolences.
technology doesn't give you your time back
More and more technology that allegedly "assists" us really just gives us more stuff to maintain and keep up with. For example, our email and text inboxes are so flooded with crap that often miss the rare important notifications we should see. And now that we have cameras on our smartphones, we never get to miss a moment--but we also have thousands of photos and screenshots cluttering up our digital photo albums, making it difficult or impossible to find the images we really cherish. And the expensive "smart fridge" that tells you when you're running low on milk? That software needs to be updated, repaired, and maintained -- all for the low cost of time and money.
technology doesn't fix your life
I'm not anti-technology; I have a technical desk job. I'm anti-addicting technology. I'm anti-too-good-to-be-true technology. I'm anti-this-will-fix-all-your-problems technology.
I'm highly suspicious and hesitant to adopt any tech that's marketed as something that will "change your life" or "help you become the person you've always wanted to be." Products that companies claim that you "need." This type of marketing takes the responsibility of becoming the person you want to be and building the life you want to live outside of you and in the hands of [insert company name]. But the vast majority of the time, an object or series of objects cannot magically transport us into our dream life, heal past wounds, fix our relationships or career problems, or help us talk nicer to ourselves in our heads. Only you can do that. Not Lexus, Apple, or Rocket Mortgage.
In conclusion: technology and stuff can be a great thing, but it can't solve every thing.