When was the last time you had a real conversation? You know what I mean. When was the last time you truly talked to someone, not a five minute conversation about the about the last episode of Shark Tank. What about the last time you went more than ten minutes away from your phone? Your laptop? Netflix? Scary to think about isn't it?
Recently I attend my sorority's formal. There were almost 50 girls there and yet there were barley 20 on the dance floor, and of those girls on the dance floor nearly all of them were on there phones posting videos and pictures on Snapchat and Instagram. The rest were sitting at tables on their phones not talking to each other.
We have grown up as the generation who has experienced a lot of first and last with technology. We were the last to have a flip phone as our first phone and the first to use a smartphone. The digital world was seamlessly integrated into our lives from the time we were children. And people have noticed. In Mark Bauerlein’s article “Online Reading is a Lesser Kind” he finds that while adults see technology in the classroom as a great innovation students see nothing new. For as long as the media has been pressuring us to buy the latest Iphone we have in turn been criticized for our internet addiction.…show more content… Many of the students reported that the challenge was difficult and the students were constantly reaching for their devices one student going so far as to say, “I reached into my pocket at least 30 times to pull out a vibrating phone that wasn’t there…”, and while this information in itself is troublesome it becomes even more concerning upon finding that this study was conducted over seven years ago. If our use of technology was labeled an addiction seven years ago then how much worse has our problem
