Chile changed, our society changed, demonstrated by the results of our recent elections. Ordinary people do not want anything with traditional political parties, this is the first and great lesson, the other is that the participation of the voters is still low, since only 40% of the possible voters voted. In a historical event, our constitution will be written by people elected by popular vote, for the first time in the history of our country.
The results began to massify via WhatsApp, this is the modern world, the leading communication application, the safest medium and used by a large part of the population of all sectors and of all ages, until it became the first application that people review when picking up the cell phone, either late at night or early in the morning, are friends and contacts and the entire series of groups in which we participate, work, family, personal and others, is highly functional, but also a vice, since we cannot abandon it, but on the contrary, it keeps us always pending, due to its high degree of dynamism and information to which we can access. It is life itself in a green app.
Thus we have groups of friends, co-workers, childhood companions, groups of neighbors from the sectors where we live, where a large number of relevant issues are dealt with, such as the state of the garbage chute, who can dispose of the garbage and if The hopper will already be full, transcendental topics, there are the groups of parents of the school, where an endless number of topics appear, each one of them under the opinion of the group leaders, the moms and dads, each one with their own idea more brilliant and of course the eternal conflicts, where almost always the same participants have opinions among themselves, that is why all these groups are in permanent silence, so as not to receive sound messages at the most inopportune hours.
Then come those who offer a whole series of products for sale through these groups, offering at several hours and throughout the week, those who are looking for certain products, those who ask about their lost pets, those who always have their opinions and like permanently attract the attention of others, those who proclaim solidarity and good customs, those who denounce their own neighbors as a kind of virtual inquisition, those who post photographs of events, evidence, and death. The Living conditioned by WhatsApp is a complex and difficult life, not suitable for everyone.
Via WhatsApp They send me the grocery purchases, I send the payment slips, I receive the bills, I ask where you are and how you are, they congratulate me on my birthday, I ask about my relatives, they send me a link to scam me, strangers talk to me, they ask me about the firewood , the paraffin, they entrust me with last minute purchases, they tell me the bad news, they tell me the latest gossip, the state of health of the aunt, the triumph of the town, the penalty not charged to my favorite team, the authority without a mask , the number of cases of the day, the last meme, my boss sends me instructions for tomorrow, he asks me about the job, they tell me from the clinic that my time has been canceled because the dentist is sad because he lost his candidate, they send me posters, propaganda, they forward me photos and more photos that I don’t want to see, they send me eternal audios that take time to download, they send me and forward messages with infinite spelling mistakes.
We have a double life, an idyllic virtual life via WhatsApp and a real one, we live constantly via WhatsApp, they send me more links than I will ever see, pages of courses that I will never take, they send me messages telling me what is happening at the moment, they send me faces with different forms and states, some hide and do not expose their status online, their views are not blue, those are the most dangerous, they cannot be trusted and they, they like to be hidden, attack from the shadows, Others write only in monosyllables, if they don’t answer me, I suffer, and I look at the application every so often to see what happens, others answer you a long time later. You suffer here. And that we have not yet talked about the phone calls under this system and the worst, of video calls via WhatsApp, family meetings, friends meetings, group tasks, with camera, without camera, virtual reels, virtual hangover, the battery is running out, I must urgently look for a charger, I can no longer reach, it was cut, the video call disappeared.
Our almost complete life is via WhatsApp, with encrypted data, which in the end anyone can see, nothing is private, we are lost, we are technological beings from the beginning of the century, via WhatsApp we are losing ourselves to look a little more at the sky, the stars and the immensity of nature that surrounds us and above all to look directly into our eyes.
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