Are Our Phones Turning Into Our Lives?

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?

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xoxo Jas