Social media communication poses risks, young people

America — and most importantly young people of America:

I am urging all of you to delete of your social media accounts. Once again we have a shooting in our schools, this time in Texas.

I believe social media has caused our young people to lose touch with reality. So I am asking all of you to delete all your accounts (I might suggest to also stop texting.).

How many times have you texted with someone, or perhaps they have sent you a text, and all of a sudden there has been a misunderstanding because you have not with the person on the phone and something was taken the wrong way. Next thing you know there is drama due to miscommunication. On social media and via texting you can’t hear the other person’s voice, you can’t tell what mood they’re in or how they are feeling at that time, without talking to them! You can’t “read them” or perhaps hear them screaming out for help.

Pick up the phone and call the person. Talk individually; don’t do it on social media where it is open and out there for all to see and you have no idea how that person is feeling.

I ask that parents step up. I ask schools to step up and teach our young people how to interact and be comfortable with one another and help one another get through life, which is not easy — without the impersonal, addictive, nonhuman interaction of technology and its fallacy of removing the personal touch of human interaction, which we all crave.