1 July 2012
My internet is down tonight, so I will post this blog tomorrow if it comes back up. It is so frustrating when you set out to complete a task and technology gets in the way. Technology is supposed to streamline our lives, make things easier, help us complete tasks with ease; however, often it is the opposite. I like to think of myself as an open minded person, but often when it comes to the changes in technology around me I am slow to adapt! I still do not text, I think that phones are for talking! I can see the convenience of texting, but it takes so much of the human interaction that I enjoy out of the equation! I did not notice the gap forming generationally until I came back to school. I think that the younger generation is loosing some of the ability to communicate face to face and hold down a meaningful verbal conversation. This does not apply to everyone, but a percentage of kids today can text 100 words a minute, but are petrified to talk to a stranger on the phone! I struggle with getting my computer to work, and my 11 year old son can fix it. This is the difference between someone who was given a computer in High School, and a kid who has never known the world without them! Though there are so many aspects of our technologically changing world that are amazing and helpful, we have grown to depend on them so much that often we could not function without them. What did we do before we could GOOGLE it?
Technology for the most part has taken the human element out of life. I think we need to get back to personal contact and heart felt written letters. There is no emotion in the way most of us interact with other people. We are becoming a distant creature walking this earth. The bad thing is most of us enjoy the contact but have lost the ability to personalize.
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