First of all, online communication has not narrowed the distance between people, but only weakened their feelings. Shortening the space distance does not mean bringing the relationship closer, and the fundamental thing to maintain interpersonal relationship is emotional communication. Marx told us in On the Unbalanced Development of Literature and Art that the development of communication tools can not directly bring about the progress of communication effect.
We don't deny that the Internet can improve the efficiency of information transmission, but the communication between people includes emotional communication and information exchange, and most of the communication on the Internet is information exchange. The so-called closeness and alienation are mainly the closeness of interpersonal relationships and thoughts and feelings. Sometimes we contact relatives and friends in different places through the internet, but this intimacy has been established, and we just use the internet to consolidate this intimacy. If we want to make this relationship closer, then we must get out of the network and return to reality.
If people are addicted to online dating, it may affect the interpersonal relationship in reality. Therefore, while the network shortens the geographical distance, it invisibly widens the spiritual distance between people and makes people more alienated.
Secondly, the network causes changes in people's thinking and behavior, which makes people more alienated. Today, with the network information flying all over the sky, some negative information has blinded people's eyes and corroded people's hearts. The entertainment and virtuality of the network have brought people all kinds of temptations. Nowadays, the number of Internet addiction patients is gradually increasing. Among Chinese teenagers, 14. 1% have internet addiction, reaching more than 24 million, and 18 million have internet addiction tendency, and it is still continuing.
What's more, they are obsessed with the internet. Sometimes they will bring some behaviors in the network into real life, from abnormal behaviors to illegal behaviors. How do these people get close to others through the internet? These facts tell us that the Internet has alienated people.
Finally, the virtual nature of the network leads to the decline of trust between people and makes people more alienated. It is difficult for network ethics and laws to effectively restrain and regulate the words and deeds of netizens. The network is highly virtual, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, which makes people unable to reach even the most basic trust. On such a network, people who take part in accidental amusement are like crossing a river. How can we close the distance between people?
The Japanese published false historical facts of aggression against China through the Internet, which made the Japanese misunderstand the historical facts of aggression against China, and to some extent led to the alienation between countries, which was not conducive to the establishment of good relations between countries. How does this bring the people of China and Japan closer together? Marxism tells us that looking at the essence through phenomena, although the network has brought us convenience, it has alienated people. We must be soberly aware that virtual networks make people more alienated.
To sum up, we insist that the Internet has alienated people.