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I have four hundred and twenty-two friends

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yet I'm lonely.

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I speak to all of them every day, yet

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none of them really know me.

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LOOK UP

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The problem I have sits[br]in the spaces between

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looking into their eyes[br]or at a name on a screen.

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I took a step back and opened my eyes

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I looked around and realised

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that this media we call social[br]is anything but.

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When we open our computers

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and it's our doors we shut.

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All this technology we have[br]is just an illusion.

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Community, companionship,[br]a sense of inclusion

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yet when you step away[br]from this device of delusion,

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you awaken to see a world of confusion.

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A world where we're slaves[br]to technology we mastered

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where information gets sold[br]by some rich greedy bastard.

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A world of self-interest, self-image,[br]self-promotion

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where we all share best bits[br]but leave out the emotion.

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We're uttermost happy[br]within experience we share

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but is it the same if no one is there?

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Be there for your friends[br]and they'll be there, too.

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But no one will be[br]if a group message will do.

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We edit and exagerrate, crave adulation

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We pretend not to notice[br]the social isolation.

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We put words into order[br]until our lives are glistening.

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We don't even know if anyone is listening.

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Being alone isn't a problem,[br]let me just emphasize

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if you read a book, paint a picture[br]or do some exercise,

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you're being productive and present,

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not reserved and recluse.

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You're being awake and attentive

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and putting your time to good use.

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So when you're in public[br]and you start to feel alone,

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put your hands behind your head,[br]step away from the phone.

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You don't need to ??[br]or wipe your contact list.

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just talk to one another.[br]Learn to coexist.

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I can't stand to hear the silence[br]of a busy commuter train

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where no one wants to talk[br]for the fear of looking insane.

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We're becoming unsocial,

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we're no longer satisfied[br]to engage with one another

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and looking into someone's eyes.

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We're surrounded by children,[br]who since they were born,

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have watched us living like robots[br]and think it is norm.

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It's not very likely you make[br]world's greatest dad

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if you can't entertain a child[br]without using an iPad.

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When I was a child I'd never be home.

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Be out with my friends on our bikes ???

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I had holes in my trainers[br]and graize up my knees

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building our club house up in the trees.

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Now the park's so quiet it gives me a chill.

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See no children outside[br]and the swings hanging still.

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There is no skipping, no hop-scotch,[br]no ? and no steeple.

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We're generation of idiots:

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Smartphones and dumb people.

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So look up from your phone,[br]shut down display.

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Take in your surroundings,[br]make the most of today.

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Just one real connection -[br]- it's all it can take

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to show you the difference[br]that being there can make.

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Be there in the moment[br]that she gives you the look

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that you remember forever[br]as when love overtook.

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Time she first hold your hand,[br]or first kiss your lips,

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the time you first disagree[br]but still love her to bits.

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The time you don't have to tell hundreds[br]of what you've just done,

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because you want to share this moment[br]with just this one.

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The time you sell your computer[br]so you can buy a ring

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for the girl of your dreams[br]who's now the real thing.

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The time you want to start a family[br]and the moment when

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you first hold your little girl[br]and get to fall in love again.

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The time she keeps you up at night[br]and all you want is rest

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and the time you wipe away the tears[br]as your baby flees the nest.

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The time your baby girl returns[br]with a boy for you to hold

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and the time he calls you grand-dad[br]and makes you feel real old.

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The time you're taking all you've made[br]just by giving life attention

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and how you're glad you didn't waste it

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by looking down to some invention.

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The time you hold your wife's hand,

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sit down beside her bed,

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You tell her that you love her,[br]lay a kiss upon her head.

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She then whispers to you quietly[br]as her heart gives a final beat

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that she is lucky she got stopped[br]by that lost boy in the street.

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But none of these times ever happened.

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You never had any of this.

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When you're too busy looking down,

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you don't see the chances you miss.

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So look up from your phone,[br]shut down those displays.

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We have a finite existence,[br]a set number of days.

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Don't waste your life[br]getting caught in the net

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as when the end comes,[br]nothing's worse than regret.

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I'm guilty too of being part of this machine,

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This digital world we're heard but not seen,

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where we type as we talk[br]and we read as we chat,

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where we spend hours together[br]without making eye contact.

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Just don't give in to the life[br]where you follow the hype.

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Give people your love.

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Don't give them your like.

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Disconnect from the need[br]to be heard and defined.

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Go out into the world[br]and leave distractions behind.

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Look up from your phone,[br]shut down that display.

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Stop watching this video[br]and live life the real way.