Blog Post #1

Seeing as how technology has evolved over the years it's easy to note that society has evolved with it. Anything can be done with a simple click of a button whether it be ordering food, order an uber, buying essential and non-essential items it can all be done on a small device. It is our life source, it's impossible to ignore. Such a small device compacted of various features allowing us to socialize with our friends, keep in touch with long distance relatives. All our memories stored in such a small object with such a large space. How can it be that this sole object that is meant to make our life easier be the cause of our sadness and loneliness. It allows us to stay in touch with multiple people all at once without having to step outside our bedroom doors. How can it be that even though we are talking everyday, keeping in touch over every event that happens in our life. No matter how little it is we chose to present this information to one another it still isn't enough for us. We continue to feel lonely. There is no satisfaction to an online relationship. There is no body contact of any sorts so it doesn't count and yet their responses are presented in front of us, their emotions and their feelings all condensed into a small bubble. Why is it that our body responds differently from our minds. Our eyes look forward and are unable to pull away from the digital life and yet our body's yearn for more it just isn't enough. Society will never understand what it feels to be liberated from the chains that restraint and hold us to social media. Today's generation needs nothing more than a phone, internet and wifi. Hopefully future generations will change the way we communicate and socialize.

Twenge, J. (2017, September) Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? Atlantic   Monthly. Retrieved from: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/