Take a moment if you can to analyze your surroundings ... What do you see? Probably many people but with a slight disconnection from reality or maybe no one if your a hermit. Sadly what you may see is everyone's head slightly pointing downward examining their lovely screens or tablet or whatever have you.
It's becoming slightly awkward to even see couples in restaurants texting away or checking their phone. It's weird that they don't seem to be communicating but they are in another way. They are sharing info but not in a regular way like it used to be. To me I see that when your at a date or any social gathering your their to communicate and enjoy a time together not with each others phone. We are attached to social networks so much that we stopped looking up!
When I was growing up I played outside. The trash can was my basketball hoop, tag had so many version I did them all , read light green light was awesome but ask some kids what tag is and they might think you mean a iPad game. I played with gi joe and ninja turtles . When I wanted to get in contact with someone I had to call their house and hope they were there or go outside and find someone else to be friends with. When I took a picture it was with a 35mm camera and every shot count.
Now it's sad that to keep kids quiet we stick them with a phone or tablet. I personally tell my son that he has so many toys and he should play with them as much as he can cause he will miss the day he had them. His best me pride will one from the moments he was outside making friends getting tired from playing and crashing after a good day out. It definitely won't be from a video game that will be obsolete by the next reiteration of that game. We as parents and as human beings need to disconnect our kids from technology take time to give them a book or tell them a story. I recently started telling my son stories about Peter Pan and dumbo and his eyes lit up with imagination behind them it was a great feeling! Sure he is allowed video games but not all the time and I make sure to monitor what he is playing for violence or other bad things (like those damned in app purchases that plague every game now).
Us as adults are way worse. See out kids will lose interest but we play social games , tweet , Facebook , Instagram , etc etc ! We make our phones and social Internet sites more of our lives then we make of our actual life! How many people do you know are constantly on Facebook or posting pictures on Instagram while they are out and about? Do those people interact with others or do they isolate themselves so much they become disjointed from the world? It's by no means terrible but sometimes you gotta take some time to be in the real world that other are a part of. A person I know is on Instagram plenty but she knows how to put that aside and have intelligent conversation or go outside and that's good - others make these things all they know. Here is where it turns dangerous.
If you haven't been made aware congress passed. Law that allows the government to know and go into your personal Information from any company. How is that bad? Well when 80 percent of your life is on your phone on websites well it allows them access to your life and the lives of others. That tweet might be being traced right now. That picture lets them know what your up to and where. We invest so much into technology we become part of it and we place our lives in it this we place out lives and personal info squarely on the hands of the government. It's a scary thought - think About if they wanted to find you right now - that shiny new phone becomes their gps to find you. They say its to monitor and help find criminals but how long before we become the criminals? Scary huh ? It could all be conjecture sure but maybe it isn't.
Unfortunate for us technology is everywhere and that phone you have now is thousands of times then a computer from the 90's. and it draws us in and makes us feel like wow we have so much power in our hands little did we know that it turns around and creates shackles. We analyze every tweet , picture , post , and thoughts of others. Friends , families , relationships go down in a flash from a simple post it's mind boggling. We the. Start isolating ourselves and making the Internet our security blanket and where will it lead us if divided we fall easier. We need to go back outside , put the phones down or turn them off completely and see our lives and ourselves again. We can't let these things strangle us until we die cause the moment we do is the moment we give up on life and it simply won't be worth living. Would you rather be known for that witty post you made or for something else that will last a life time for you and them and maybe others.
Till next write ... See you outside
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