Technology.....

Today we say,with the advent of technology,the world has become small...(hope our hearts don't become small)...exchanging messages,mails has become the order of the day....but in this process are we missing something??? I was talking to a friend yesterday.I had called her after a really long time.The moment i said hello,she recognized my voice (so sweet of her) but her instant reaction was a long list of scoldings...she rebuked me for not having kept in touch....i justified saying i do mail her regularly.....to which she became silent and said something that sent me into introspection.She said,"U keep in touch with people by forwarding mails".Yes,this is what technology has done to me.....I claim to be in touch with friends and relatives thru mails!!!! In order to confirm, i checked the sent mail of my mail box and was shocked to see that in the last 7 days alone,i had sent more than 7 forwards to most of my friends.....I immediately decided "no more mails forwarding"....similarly social networking....we chat on Facebook,we comment.....that too with people who stay just a couple of kms away....i was home for the summers this year...and wanted to get back in touch with my school frnds....and guess what!! i met most of them...i was very happy having met many of them............................i was happy.......i was happy for having met them online....what a sad state of affairs.....i met them online but couldn't meet them personally although each one of them stays within a radius of 2-3 kms.....something to ponder upon...why have we started distancing ourselves and why have we become so self centered???