Let's consider a situation where a family is sitting at the dining table, the son takes out his iPhone, connects to Wi-Fi and starts chatting with his friends on “ Facebook”. The father has a Samsung Galaxy S4 in his hands and while he eats he reads the newspaper online and uses Messenger "Whatsapp". The mother is busy texting her friends. They are all "socializing" but none of them have said a single word to each other. This situation can be seen commonly nowadays. Technology has brought us closer and reduced distances but in reality it has distanced us from each other. The rapid growth of technology has brought about significant changes in human life, especially in their relationships. The latest technologies have transformed this world into a "global village" but the way in which human beings interact with each other, the types of relationships and their importance have changed a lot. Technological progress has brought us closer but has also separated us. In the past, the means of communication were limited. The only means of communication was to write a letter or send a telegram. The number of people known about was limited. At that time, you may not have known the person living on the other side of the globe, but you knew who their neighbors were. They talked and interacted with each other and knew what others were going through. They communicated with less, but they communicated more. Unfortunately, today, through social media you know the person who lives thousands of kilometers away, but you don't know their neighbor. An example of this is cited by Marche, a novelist who writes a monthly column for Esquire. Marche says: “Yvette Vickers, former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, turned 83 last August, but no one… middle of paper… plays but to the detriment of their social life. Silverman, in an article on Yahoo Games said: "the sales director of Sydney-based online retailer 4Cabling has set a Guinness World Record for the longest video game marathon ever by playing over 135 hours of blockbuster first-person shooter Black Ops II." that is, the boy spent 135 hours playing a video game. Works Cited http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/308930/ http://www.scientificamerican. com/article/how-your-cell-phone-hurts-your-relationships/ http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Social-media-addiction-killing-real-human-ties-and- interactions/-/539548/1638442/-/ou0jd4/-/index.html http://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/index.php?i=15444&a=69399 https://games.yahoo.com/ blog/plugged-in/australian-man-breaks-gaming-marathon-record-122-hours-201104147.html