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With the high popularity of mobile phones, people have realized the “instant connectivity” idea put forward by domestic scholars via the Internet. Through social networks or real time communication, we can set up a “two-sided (or multi-faceted) stage” at anytime, anywhere, and perform between virtual and real life. However, some international scholars have pointed out that while the development of the Internet is originally well-intended, the excessive connectivity may be dangerous to young people's mental health, which the scholars call “the problem of progress”. The author examines a survey report published overseas and learns that Taiwanese people aged between 16 and 64 on average spend a total of 9.2 hours per day on the Internet and social media software in 2024. Therefore, the author hypothesizes that the mental health problems caused by prolonged Internet use are not limited to young people, but may be applicable to the whole age group. The author further compares the annual reports of the National Health Insurance Medical Statistics from 2018 to 2022 published by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, in which the number of outpatient and emergency consultations for mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders is not positively correlated with the average daily time spent on the Internet and social media, however, the number of consultations has only slightly decreased in 2021, while the other four years have seen a greater increase. Time spent on the Internet and social media is approaching or even exceeding 40 percent of the 24 hours a day. The constant long hours of surfing the Internet and using social media, as well as the habit of using real-time communication to deal with both public and private affairs, have also led to the gradual blurring of the boundaries between the public and private spheres. Some international scholars believe that it is necessary to restore the physical dialogues between people in order to repair the connection between them that has been interrupted in the technological era. In the past eight years, the author has taken photos during his travels in Taiwan and Japan, and printed them into postcards at convenience stores before sending them to his friends and relatives, in order to deliver the idea that the author wants to convey. Therefore, the author hopes to advocate the use of non-real-time homemade postcards as a medium of communication to optimize interpersonal connections and to restore physical dialogues. However, research and creation must be verified, and the author wishes to utilize public exhibitions as a means of verification. However, it is indeed difficult to base on whether or not it is able to optimize interpersonal connections and restore dialogue, therefore, the author takes it as a criterion that whether or not the visitors are able to print the self-made postcards to convey their ideas like the author did, and submit the finished products to the exhibition site as a criterion. During the exhibition period, several sets of submissions were received, and the author not only assisted in sending them out, but also, after de-identifying them, carried out a second exhibition based on the concept of social participation in art. Since then, the author's exhibition has not only been an exhibition of humanity, but also a co-creative work with exhibition visitors, which is also a result of the validation of the present research and creative work.
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