Disconnect to Connect

This is the name of the facebook page of my sister as part of her requirements in her college degree. I am just amazed on how technology uses us to be close to the people away from us but it also uses us to be far from the people around us.

Disconnect to Connect is a page encouraging all the technology savvy to disconnect for a while in order to connect to the people around us. 

I was known to be a person who keeps on posting in facebook. I am addicted in posting my thoughts, what I am going through and almost all of the activities in my account. Thus, I tried to include it in my fast this year by deactivating my facebook account for a week. Whenever I feel the urge to post, I prayed, wrote my thoughts in a paper or talked to a friend. I actually miss seeing facebook posts but I tried not to peek in my page even just for a week.

When the prayer and fasting is over, I activated my account but I tried not to post any activity on it. Instead, I just like and commented in the posts of other people. Eventually, it became part of my system that I don’t usually look at my phone.  I became more connected with the people around me especially those who are really close to my heart.

I actually love it when I’m literally out of social media. I love it when I don’t post anything and my facebook friends are just curious. Some of my friends actually asked me why I’m no longer posting and they also began asking me how’s going on in my life. Those questions became actual conversations; and with those conversations, there are interactions; and those interactions are far way better than posting in the social media.

And so, I am promoting this facebook page to everyone else, to create awareness to everyone who is like me before, to encourage them to disconnect to social networks, and connect to the people around them.