You know that moment when you gaze across the street for a pokestop on an active lure module and see people occasionally glancing at their phones, you simply can't resist to notice the smile building up on your cheeks as you figure out they are after the same thing as you are.
The urge you feel when you are about to ask
"So you're after the lure too, huh?"
And add the sparkling conversation of sharing information on where to find which virtual monster.
Not sure how some people see it but the game actually forces people to talk to each other, socialize and even initiate conventions just because of it.
Technology would only overlap humanity if it is to be constantly used as the alternative for human interaction.
When one would establish their identity within the realms of the virtual arena and hide behind the imageries of how they want people to think of them, when being on is more preferred than actually being there.
When it is used to misrepresent ideas and opinions of people.
When one's moral drive is enslaved by their will to validate their online identity and only that.
When its existence is designed to create a gap between people and interaction.
Games like Pokemon GO do not do that.
It urges people to socialize, hang out and spend time with strangers whom then turn into friends because of the shared common objectives. Personally, I've never been more friendly to new faces or outgoing than before.
Yes I know it's not real, but just when have we started to mingle with people over something that isn't real? (Love maybe? JK)
But maybe it's about time we use technology to get people to actually be there.
And if we're getting people to interact out of something that does not even exist, that's more humanity to me than the rest of the internet.
When one would establish their identity within the realms of the virtual arena and hide behind the imageries of how they want people to think of them, when being on is more preferred than actually being there.