My 5 year old knows how to text!!!!
I have to say, I loved the pod cast we had to listen to for class on Tuesday. I had never heard one before and I found it very interesting. Paul talked about his experience with his dependence on his cell phone and of others that he knew with the similar feelings of dependence. It is amazing to me how we have become a society where the cell phone is like a part of us and when we don’t have it, we feel as if something is missing. I could picture myself out in the ‘natural environment’ without some sort of technology and I agree with Paul that the concept seemed alien to me as well. After growing up in an era with old rotary phones being stationary in the home it took me a while to realize why I needed a cell phone at all. My attitude used to be that I didn’t want to be that available to people, they did not need to be able to get a hold of me no matter where I was. I then told myself that I should get a phone in order for my children to be able to contact me and that was comforting so I embraced life with a cell phone. I then learned how to text message and that has become my lifeline in a sense because my two older children text me to let me know when they will be home and where they are, it’s convenient and I feel better having this communication with them. Life changes in order to make technology feel necessary, I really do feel lost when I happen to forget my cell phone or if it dies or God forbid I lose it. It may be a distraction yet we succumb to it because we convince ourselves it’s necessary, that is why a feeling of panic ensues when something happens to any technology we rely on daily. I agree with Paul when he said “technology is not neutral because we are living in a world of connections.” The question to ask ourselves is at what point to do we say enough is enough? with the way technology is advancing in contemporary society, I think we are a point of no return and it seems nobody really cares.
