Our generation is more connected to each other than any generation before. Growing up in the digital age, we’ve been communicating through electronic media since we were kids. E-mails, cell phones and text messaging keep us click of a button away from our friends at any given moment.
Every time I lose/break/drown my cell phone I wonder how people ever lived without one? How did they coordinate plans for the night? Call AAA? Stay awake in class?
The next time you walk anywhere on campus, look at everyone’s hands. I guarantee you will see more people on their phone than not. Why? No one simply walks by themselves anymore. Why are we so afraid of being alone that we have to be in constant conversation with someone else?
I have friends that will take their phone with them when they go to the bathroom. That’s disgusting! Especially when you think about all the flirting that takes place through text messaging. Get the picture?
Also, look around at your fellow classmates in your next class. How goofy do some of them look slouched down awkwardly trying to text under their desks? It’s disrespectful to their professors and also bad for their grades, unless you’re somehow taking notes in T9.
Northeastern, I urge you-- get off your cell phones and talk to each other! Or don’t. Simply exist by yourself for awhile. It’s your world-- enjoy it for a few moments without the beeping of your keypad. Good luck!
It must be said that I am in the middle of a text message conversation as I am typing this. E-mail willialm@nsuok.edu to report cell phone addiction.
