After watching the video “The Innovation of Loneliness” I've realized that as social media, and mobile devices are getting better equipped and designed to help keep us more connected, in some ways instead of growing closer together we end up growing further apart. For example when we “friend” someone on Facebook we are keeping them at a safe distance by placing down our emotional barrier. This is because while we are online we only choose to post what we want other people to know! In other words we only post the good side of us while the bad stays hidden behind the computer screen. Social Media is making us grow further apart from the people around us because while we are on social media sites this allows us to read and look at pictures of peoples’ everyday lives; therefore we already know what they are up to and we no longer feel the need to personally be involved in their life. I am no better than anyone else in this area but I am striving to have more face to face conversations and bring people closer rather than pushing them away. At the end of the day we are humans if we don’t have any real interactions with other human beings eventually we will go crazy. “We should put down our phones, turn off their computers, and learn to communicate with one another face-to-face.” (Huff, 2011) are we going to continue staying online thinking that is the only way to stay connected or do we get offline and take a walk to get to know each other? Its your own personal choice.