This is the generetion full of advances and a growing sensation to be the best. With Apple constantly spitting out new iPhones and iPads, kids today are constantly updating their phones, computers and music systems to be the hippest of them all.
Technology is slowly taking over our lives.
Among the top contributors, Apple has been battling the cellular and viral world with it’s nifty, sleek devices. We all loved the Mac versus PC commercials with quirky Kevin Long outshining the gray, crumby PC.
But this isn’t a rant on Apple.
When Amazon’s Kindle hit the shelves, it knocked all the paperbacks off and under the rug.
The iPhone replaced iPods and cell phones in one fell swoop.
Television has become seemingly tangible with the emergence of 3-D T.V.
The iPad puts all laptops to shame with its HD apps and full size keyboard.
Facebook and Twitter have exploded into teenaged lives as students rely social networking for the majority of their entertainment and procrastination.
Things that we never thought possible have now gone portable, smaller and thinner.
With technology having been integrated into our everyday lives, there is little way for people to avoid having to come into contact with the internet, screens or keys.
Today, I can’t even imagine going a day without my phone or some way of utilizing the Internet. I text like a boss and Facebook chat for fun. It’s easy.
It is easier to be more conversational and outgoing over Facebook or texting.
The meek become Internet extroverts. The lazy stay lazy.
We have become a complacent, de-socialized people. How many times a week do you make a phone call? Why not just text them? When was the last time you knocked on your friend’s door when you are picking them up? An “I’m here” will suffice.
What I’m trying to say here is that all the significance of a personal, face-to-face conversation has been lost. Human interaction has been reduced to nothing more than a few keystrokes and clicks.
Don’t rely on today’s technological to become the person you wish t0 be.
