One fear of technology I have is it's incredible potential to destroy direct human communication and interaction as we know it. I see this happening more and more every day; and it really is something that makes me nervous. One commercial in particular comes to my mind. A bunch of kids standing together at a school bus stop, all with their eyes glued to their phones as they text away. The commercial is supposed to scare parents about their cell phone bills; but my question is how does no one see something wrong with a group of school kids standing together at the bus stop, all completely ignoring each other?! The bus stop!!!! The one place a child is free in the world, from their parents and their teachers. The one place they can actually be a kid and they're wasting all of that precious time with their faces down at the ground.
Every day people grow farther apart from each other and use technology to bridge that gap. A text message is now worth a call, and the call now worth a what? An actual face-to-face conversation? In my opinion people are NOTICEABLY becoming less and less able to communicate directly with others, always wanting to "send an email instead" or my favorite, "No, I can just facebook you!"
Technological communication is a valuable tool that can be used to spread messages and information quickly and in a super-efficient manner, but we have to realize what consequences can arise from relying too much on it.
Texting Can Be Expensive - T-Mobile Commercia;. Youtube.com. T-Mobile, 23 July 2010. Web. 5 Sept. 2010. .
I completely agree with you that over reliance on technology can be a bad thing and can have many negative consequences. One of which i believe is the lessening of face to face communication.Texting and phones increases our ability to communicate with the world and the community around us; share, trade, etc. BUT it also decreases our ability to communicate with each other, meaningfully, in a natural manner, face to face.
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