Phones seem to have a large part of our undivided attention
throughout our whole day. Whether for business, social, or the menacing hour
boredom strikes. Technology gets us day to day in this society, and we all know
that one person that goes bananas when their phone’s dead or that person that
nearly flips out when they can’t find their phone. We look to our phones for
communication; that long lost friend you need to catch up with, social media;
those Instagram posts from some of your favorite people or that tweet that you
just had to post to reveal how you were feeling, and business purposes; those
from work who you need to be in tune with. Younger generations use it to
connect with each other the most. As phone fanatics in a tech crazed world we can’t
seem to look to other things for entertainment. I barely can pay attention to
television anymore due to the fact that my phone is more interesting. Phone
usage is widely expanding and a person can barely even carry a conversation without
checking their phones for a notification or in hopes of a notification.
Is all this attention we give our phones good for our
society even though it assists us so much? Could we become what we hold in the
palm of our hand, a emotionless device or an overly information craving human
being? Are we missing out on the world while we're so busy raving about it on
twitter and posting pictures of it on Instagram? How much is too much when it
comes to phones? Think about whether you could go a day or maybe two without
your hand held. Would you be pulling your hair out while encountering
withdrawal or would you be the one with no weight of the world on his or her
shoulders and actually living life? People definitely were able to before
technology.
At another glance, another question arose when I thought
about media; when it comes to twitter and Instagram, are we posting for
validation? Think about it, these days if a person attends a concert or goes to
the club they are most likely to post or tweet explaining how they had the time
of their lives, how they almost fell down some steps to a possible death or
they post a picture that pretty much explains their night. The question is, are
people posting for their selves or posting to look like they have a life to
others? Depends all on the reason, I've considered reasons such as personal
advertising purposes and marketing strategies; the more you post the more is
seen and viewed, this rules out a good amount of social media users, but what
other reasons could there be?
Comment below and share your own personalized opinion.
xoxo Jas
