Are people too attached to there cell's and social networking?
By 910chris
How quickly things have changed.
Here we are nearing the end of 2011 and times are tougher than they ever have been. Cheating husbands cheating on there wives or vice versa is rampant with a 57 divorce rate in America right now. Even if your not married but thinking about it studies are showing that your significant other may already have someone on the side. I would think that our new age of technology has a lot to do with that.
We have social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace,LinkedIn and Twitter. We have a thousand different dating sites to chose from, and not all of them are made for just single people. You can even surf most of these sites on your smart-phone and your husband or wife will never find out. Now I know that these sites have some great uses to like finding old friends or school mates that we lost touch with years ago, but the underside is how addicted we have become to these sites! It seems like not an hour can go bye for some people before they have to make a status update from there phone to Facebook. Sometimes these people are even driving and leaving messages or Twittering and this of course is leading to a great increase in accidents which has led to the increase in fines or even jail for being on the phone while driving. About 15 states now have anti-cell phone laws in place with most states having large fines if caught or a night in jail. I have even read about a women twittering about giving birth, while she was giving birth! I mean if that's not addition, then I really don't know what is.
Why are people becoming so addicted to these forms of communications? Why are we becoming so dependent on technology? What exactly is it that is drawing us ever closer to a world of self-isolation? I know some people who use to go out every night and just hang out, have fun no matter what it was. Now, they stay in front of a computer screen talking to people they never met and brag about having a thousand friends (most of whom they don't actually know). If we keep going down this path of self-isolation, we will totally lose sight of our identities as individuals.
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Sites that I found about this subject and another interesting subject for another day.
Comments
Like the one commercial goes,"can a person use a smart phone to do some things?" They can and they do!
Dumb things, I hate this keyboard.
thesingernurse 5 months ago
Nice hub. :D You are right. Nowadays, people are so absorbed on using social media sites that they forget the real value of making friends and acquaintances in person. However, technology has its good points too. It's a matter of utilizing it to yield positive and favorable results...