WATCH: Man’s incredible video poem will make you think: ‘We’re a generation of idiots, smart phones and dumb people’

An incredible video poem has slammed the modern obsession with social media and our phones for making people lonely.

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by Ellie Hooper |
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Writer and Director Gary Turk put together an amazing four minute video poem, chastising the world for becoming too involved in social media, and forgetting to engage with real people in every day life.

Starting the video, Gary says: 'I have 422 friends, yet I am lonely. I speak to all of them every day, yet none of them really know me.'

He continues: 'This media that we call social is anything but. When we open our computers and it's out doors we shut.'

Gary calls us 'slaves to the technology we've mastered' and accuses people of sharing 'our best bits but leave out the emotion.'

The director urges watches that: 'when you're in public and you start to feel alone, put your hands behind your head, step away from the phone.'

'Just talk to one another, learn to coexist' he adds.

The writer adds that we miss out by constantly being semi-present in all situations - constantly checking our Facebook or Twitter whilst having a conversation.

He adds: 'Be there in the moment that she gives you the look that you'll remember forever. That's when love overtook.'

As the narrator takes us through a couple's life - from meeting on a street corner to their death in old age - he emphasises all the moments you would miss if you can't strike up a conversation in real life with another human being.

'We have a finite existence, a set number of days' he warns, 'don't waste your life getting caught in the net.'

'Give people your love, don't give them your like.'

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