Technology Addictions

This day in age is consumed with the connectedness that we are actually more connected to our devices than we are to people.  As I've said in earlier posts, we use technology over face to face interactions.  This connection to a device rather than people is what is corrupting this generation to the point of 80% of us checking our phones before we brush our teeth in the morning.  I'm also willing to bet that the percentage is higher than that when looking at people on their phones before they go to bed at night.  What is it that makes it so we crave this artificial connection to the lives of other people?  What is so important about our lives that we have to share it with the world and not just our friends face to face?  This generation is the most connected, but also seems to be the most distant.  This is a call I make to challenge all members of my generation, its time we take a step away from our phones and social media, its time we take a week and disconnect ourselves, and instead have real conversations.  Why not try that for a week, see where it takes you.  Instead of checking your phone play an instrument, go outside (before we freeze and are buried in snow).  Its all a process, why don't we start it now.  Facebook is on the downturn.  What if other social media was too? This is an intervention to the addiction our world has to technology.  Its time for change.