Resisting the Feed pt.2

The Feed is hooked into all of your emotions. It knows what you want before you know even what you want. It provides what ever you could possibly want, the only catch is that if the feed breaks, so do you. The Feed is designed to network you in with almost anyone you want, but it leaves people almost like empty shells. Most of them don't know how to act around other people, or have a full conversation.

The Feed takes away from social interaction with other people as we see in the story. They try to chat with people, even when they don't have a feed. School is not really a thing either because the kids can just look up what ever they need to on the feed. The only reason they go to school is to learn more about using the feed. 

Now some people may say that the Feed is helpful to their lives, and I would agree with them, but only to an extent. The feed is helpful when looking something up, ordering something, or talking to old relatives, but that's where I draw the line. After those simple things, the feed starts to take over other parts of our lives that we should be in control of. I would not like a machine in my head constantly telling me what it thinks I may want or need. The Feed should never be part of daily lives.

The argument people could make against this is what about the technology we have today? Our phones and computers, the search engines and websites we visit, are being tailored to provide ads and other popups specifically targeted at things we may like. Facebook is removing posts that may not suit our opinions, and Amazon may include things in our search list that might correspond to recent searches. This is all true, but the difference between this and the feed, is that it can be turned off. Our phones and computers can be shut down, and they are not connected to our brains in anyway. As good as the Feed sounds, it should never happen.