Between Facebook , Twitter, and Texting. We have created the empire that is known as Social Networking. In past years there was no such thing as e-mail or facebook, yet in todays society it is critical to keeping in touch and even in places of education (considering I am blogging for a grade here). The digital revolution afffects us all and in different ways. For instance, years ago when a boy wanted to ask a girl on a date he would go up to her and ask; while now a days a guy would text her and ask. We eliminate the face to face interaction replacing it with a blackberry.
Those heart to hearts that used to take place when consoling a friend, now happen over facebook when you see the sad tweets that they had posted. To get in touch with your dad who's at a business meeting in Denver you log in to Skype and face chat; when you use to send a letter or pay a very pricey long distance call. Social networking does a great job of keeping us in touch with our friends and loved ones who cant be with us all the time but is the price we are paying really worth it? No one ever asks the question "what is wrong with social networking" because we all love it so much, so how could there possibly be a flaw?
Well the truth is, as great as social networking is we are creating a youth that is literally addicted to it. There are people who tweet over 100 times a day, some who update there status to "walking the dog" and "going pee" and the problem with this is we are teaching our youth that it is ok to ignore the reality unfolding before us and tweet about it instead. Imagine going skydiving and facebooking - you update your status to "Skydiving OMG" and you take a quick picture and make it your display picture and by the time you finish you realize - crap I should probably pull my shoot before I hit the ground. And splat your dead. Obviously thats a crazy highly unlikely situation but I have seen some pretty accurate ones occur, for instance watch some of the videos 7 commercials. Getting hit with a baseball, not noticing your wife in a cute outfit and falling while running. I am not saying I do not use facebook or text, but should we really spend all of our time trying to let everyone be in the know to the point where we are unable to get off the moving path at the airport? Maybe I am overlooking the purpose and taking into account the extreme situations. But I did just spend 20 minutes setting up this blog so that someone would read it, didn't I. Skydiving
Airports and Cell phones dont mix...
Well said, Danica, There are real problems associated with all this new technology. I think the key is to use social media as a tool and take control of it. If you are tweeting 100 times a day and your dog wets the carpet, it's probably becoming a problem. Use it to learn, to communicate, but don't use it as an excuse not to talk face to face. And there should be some unwritten rules about texting like: don't text apologies, dating requests, or breakup requests. Is there a site that offers rules like this??? WHy is your site called: 525,600 min. I know that is from "RENT".
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