Although Digitalization Makes Life Easier, It Makes People Lonely

Üsküdar University NP Etiler Medical Center Specialist Clinical Psychologist Uluğ Çağrı Beyaz made evaluations about the loneliness caused by the rapidly developing digitalization with modernism.

Specialist Clinical Psychologist Uluğ Çağrı Beyaz, who started his speech by reminding that digitalization entered the social life with modernism, said, “The rapidly changing economic, cultural and social norms are dragging us towards a technology-oriented life. From this point of view, although mobile phones, tablets, computers and virtual assistants make life easier, they also change individuals' natural face-to-face communication habits by providing virtual satisfactions.

Specialist Clinical Psychologist Uluğ Çağrı Beyaz emphasized that due to the decrease in face-to-face natural communication, individuals need and need less towards others and said, “This situation causes individuals to become lonely, insensitive and socially isolated. When evaluated in general, digitalization and developments in this direction make life easier. However, from another point of view, we can say that it inhibits people's interaction and communication, and in essence, it causes the feeling of isolation and loneliness to be permanent and long-term.