Last week I went to my parent's house for dinner. While sitting at the dinner table, my dad yelled at my brothers, sister, and I for always being on our "gadgets." For him, he grew up in a time where technology wasn't this advanced so "family dinner" literally meant sitting down and having dinner with your family; completely uninterrupted. However, in today's society, that is completely different.
My dad yelling at us got me thinking. Could we live without our cellphones and other technology? I know I couldn't. The first thing I do when I wake up is check my text messages, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, etc. Then throughout the day, I am constantly on my phone. Whether it is to call my best friend, check all my different social medias, or to listen to music when I am running. Then when I come home from work or school or wherever, I usually can be found sitting in my bed watching Netflix and scrolling through Tumblr on my laptop. I am constantly using technology.
While researching to find an article that would correspond with this topic I found this one.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/the-technologies-americans-can-and-can-t-live-without-20140227
In this article, a pole that was taken about what technology people believed would be the hardest to give up. It was concluded that 53% of people believed that Internet would be the hardest technology to give up.
So now my question for you is, could you give it up?
I think it is so common for for our parents to say this, my stepdad does all the time. I don't think I could just because I reply so much on it to get me places and wake me up on time.
ReplyDeleteFor me, family dinners are a nightmare, so having a device of some sort is a personal way of handling the "craziness". I try to limit it as much as possible though, I want to respect the people around me and let them know I care about them. I don't want to send them the message that "this device that could be broken in half a second is more important than the bond that we share as a family". When it comes down to it, you might not ever be able to get that time back with them, so it's important to cherish the time you have with them while they are there in the present. That's the way I see it anyways. I think I could live without technology if I had to, but I'm glad that I don't because I do enjoy having it.
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