Don't lose that personal touch!

A family of five was travelling on the bus seated close to each other and all their ears were plugged with their earpiece listening to their own MP3 songs, and I am sure they were all listening to songs of their respective age group, the parents would most likely prefer their oldies while the children must be going for the latest hits in town. As they were plugged with the earpieces, obviously there was hardly any conversation between them.

This goes to show one thing: while we are so digitally-connected, we might not be so emotionally-connected nowadays. Recently, I commended someone on Facebook, who has many friends in her network, but she told me that they are just net friends, not real friends. It seems that many of these friends are so-called digital friends, but not friends who share the real emotions. People generally still prefer high-touch to high-tech.

Therefore, no matter how advanced we are in terms of technological development, don't forget that we are all still humans who need personal touch. While everyone is sending an e-greeting card, your hard-copy greeting card that comes in the letter box with the postal mark could be a high-touch surprise and it would be very special to the person who receives it.