In this short film, The Anti-Social Network, Lucas George is basically giving a look in the life of a person who seldom goes a minute without his phone, more specifically, facebook. This short film starts out with the definition of addiction and that pretty much sums up in one word the level of dependency people have on technology. No matter where Lucas is or what he is doing it is always a click away because he literally checks in whenever he goes somewhere, even when he is at a funeral as rude as it may sound. It's pretty pathetic looking how far Lucas goes to get likes and comments on facebook, even as far as falsifying his plans and where he is which ultimately leads him to actually being called to a bar close to where he was said to be according to his facebook when in reality he was sitting in his living room talking to his kittens. While at the club he gets the number of this girl named Leila and this leads to a date. While on the date Lucas can only focus on facebook and boasting to Leila about the amount of likes and comments he'll receive for everything he is posting and this obviously is a huge turn off to anybody on a date so this leads Leila to take his phone away from him and turn it off. When that doesn't work Leila gets so fed up she calls him an idiot for not realizing he doesn't need to post and share every single little thing that happens to him and she just leaves him, mid-date, baffled by the fact that social media caused him to mess up a first date. It takes the shut down of facebook for Lucas to really see that his priority is a social media website when it should be more important things like Leila. In the end Lucas gets the girl because he realized that having real life personal connection is more important and worthy of his time than online superficial connections. This short film says quite a few things about how over time, the integration of technology is slowly but sure overtaking peoples' priorities and causing us to become detached from real life and attached to online social networking. People are always on their phones, always checking for an update or a like or a comment, but it's just much more easier to put down the phone and go see somebody, go explore the places that have only been seen online, to go and actually do something rather than sitting behind a screen whether it be a computer or a phone, because in the long run it's the experiences we have and encounter that we remember, not the amount of likes we got on a picture that people barely took a glance at and clicked on a button.
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