Sunday, November 14, 2010
i love my iphone :]
Basically, everyone has a cellphone today. It seems that people have forgotten how to communicate with one another face to face so much so that all you ever see now are people with their heads always down looking at their phones,texting,talking or checking their Facebooks online, and so on. Technology helps us but it's also taking over our lives when we could easily balance technology with our day to day life. I, myself, fall into this category and sometimes catch myself being that type of person that I get annoyed at, like when there's an awkward silence so I take out my phone and play with it to look busy. People can't go an hour without their devices while eating dinner at a restaurant or simply just doing anything. In a world where parents used to get onto their kids for not being polite while at the dinner table or in public, everything has changed. I see parents and adults being on their phones while eating, checking there social networking sites and answering calls. I see little kids starting to play on phones at 2 years old when they could be coloring or playing outside. When I was 12, I was playing outside and riding my bike but in today's world, kids are on Facebook and playing online or texting. Things have definitely changed and to me, communication within families isn't how it once was.
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I totally agree with this! Just as I said in my post, as much as I love my iPhone, it has definitely come inbetween me and my family time! However, I'm not the only one in my family that has an obsession with my cell phone. My mom is guilty also about having her phone out at the dinner table surfing the web and looking at Facebook. The sad part is, these days it's not only teenagers that can't put their phones down, it's the parents as well.
ReplyDeletelove it when phones have app's
ReplyDeleteI comepletely agree with you!! The family dynamic is definately not what it once was. My cousin, who is in the fifth grade, has a phone and a facebook and I just do not understand that. I did not get my first phone until I was 12-13 years old and even then I was only alotted so many minutes and texts per month and I still didn't have something like a facebook. I think it is so sad that kids don't know how to be "kids" anymore. They all have some kind of technological device that they would rather be playing with than being outside like we were. I used to build mud pies and have a big time and I don't think my little sister even knows what a mud pie is. Sad, sad, sad! And yes the parents obsession with phones and such and lack of attention to more important things like their kids is quite sad as well.
ReplyDeleteThats so funny you said mud pies,I was going to say that in my blog but I didn't think anyone else made them,that's to funny.I know what you mean about kids not being kids anymore,a few months ago my 10 year old cousin in Georgia added me on Facebook and I was shocked.
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