The needs of humans

Many scientists agree, or so I recall being told that humans need food, water and shelter to survive. We homo sapiens, being highly advanced species, have no question evolved over the years—most recently at an exponential rate. Now we are in the midst of a technological boom era, which I hope is a phase and leads to the right progress: positive in nature and unadulterated or misguided.

Most, not all humans, rely on some sort of technology. As some scientist in my field theorized, humans have other needs, which I tend to classify as social needs (although not sure about current theory). In other words, loneliness would prevent you from surviving as long, as a loner is less fit (survival of the fittest—Darwinism) to survive as a species. But I wonder how we define this social need. I like a wide range of socializing, even if vicariously through reality TV—no, not me, but millions of others. I do like to socialize through as many different places and people I can given the fact that I feel comfortable and desire the communication. I have not reached the point where I need Facebook or other social media to talk.

But I also cannot understand how or why the teenagers in our schools have evolved or are somewhat changing into a generation of earbud-wearers (listening to their music through phone), and escaping communication at school with their peers, etc., to text, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. That is not communication, nor considered a method to sufficiently fulfill the arguably fourth need.

Parents, talk to your kids more, put the technology down every once and a while and just kick it old school … or jump on the bandwagon and hope it’s a phase!