When Your Smartphone Is Too Smart for Your Own Good: How Social Media Alters Human Relationships

The author considers whether the dystopian society of 2025 described in Spike Jonze’s movie Her is as far away as one might think. The intervention of social media and “smart technology” has resulted in human beings preferring engagement in mediated communications. This results in less reliance on the five primary senses acting in concert while interacting socially, a key to empathy. The result may be less honest relationships.