As society develops, have people become more closely connected or become more distant?

Since the development of communication and transportation allows us to reach almost any corner of the world and allows us to recognize people from all over the world, from a macro perspective, with the development of society, the entire human race Society is indeed more connected.

However, from an individual point of view, we are only an extremely small part of the entire human society, and the compactness of the connections between people has been diluted. Just like a drop of water, if it simply exists in a dry environment, its existence will be magnified, but when it merges into the vast ocean, its existence will become minimal. This is because the development of society has prompted us to relate to more people, and the relationships with these people have dispersed the density of our connections to the close people around us.

Just like comparing a class with only 10 students to a class with 50 students, assuming that each of them needs to be connected, then the students in the class with only 10 students are connected. The closeness will definitely be higher than that of a class of 50 people, because the number of people they need to contact is much smaller than that of 50 people.

As long as a person has gone to school, he will inevitably have contact with others, but you will find that the more people we know, the fewer people we can really have deep friendship with, because we need to take care of them to other people.

Due to the development of society, the time for contact between people has also been diluted. Presumably, as long as you are a student who has passed the high school entrance examination or someone who has a job in the society, you must have had such an experience. In fact, you have always wanted to call your good friends out to talk about old times or go somewhere to have fun, but you will always be ignored. With all kinds of things delayed, there are very few opportunities to actually get together. During this period, new variables have entered each other's lives, causing certain changes in each other. So when they get together again, they will find that they are not the same people they originally knew, and they don't know what to do. How to interact. It will be awkward, it will be cold, and you have to pretend that these things don't exist. So, as time goes by, neither of them is willing to destroy the friendship in name only, and the contact becomes less and less.

The connection between people requires time and energy to maintain, and with the development of society, our individuality has been diluted. The entire society is like a big factory, and everyone is a small part in this factory. For the entire factory, we need to be connected with each other to make the factory run well; for us individuals, we can only follow the steps step by step. The instructions in the factory are in contact with each other and separated, and there is not so much personal emotion.

To sum up, the closeness of the connection between people depends on how much you value the other person.