Nomophobia
nomophobia : fear of being without access to a working cell phone
As I go through my archive of images this afternoon, I have noticed how many frames I have shot where the people I am working with are on their phones. Sending a text message. Creating a story for Snapchat and Instagram. A quick behind the scenes shot from our shoot. Checking what everyone else is doing. Judging people based off what they choose to share with the world. Keeping up with the local gossip.
Our phones now allow us to be constantly connected with the entire world. So we can see what everyone else is doing. And they can see what we are doing. We feel like we are connected to them. We know what their lives are like. The reality is we are less connected than we have ever been before. We text with reckless abandon and respond if and when we want to. We rarely pick up the phone and have a conversation. Dinners are spent with the entire table taking photos of their food and scrolling through Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. We are living our entire lives scrolling endlessly paying attention to what everyone else is doing…and not actually living our own lives…
Put your phone down. Turn off your notifications. Look at someone while you are talking with them. Quit looking for that instant gratification fix. Just fucking look up and live.
