Words from the web
Some people are saying that people are getting too attached to their smartphones. They contend that young people can’t talk to anyone in person, because they only talk to people on their phones. But even adults, they add, are terrible even using their phone while at dinner and other social outings. Do you think the complaints are true? Or do you think it’s all overblown and much ado about nothing?
“I have had both of my daughters visit me, one lives out of town, and while they were visiting they were texting each other while in the same room.”
“True. Its destroying our youth.”
“It kind of depends. I like keeping connected on ‘the go,’ but I know others who can’t live without checking FB or other social media every few minutes. No need to generalize this, but I’m beating a dead horse when saying that to the media.”
“They are 100 percent true.”
“You should write an article on technology through the ages and discuss how every major invention had people talking about how it was destroying the America — like when the telephone destroyed everything. Remember how America ceased to be when every home got a telephone? What we have is a nation of morons who believe that change is the same thing as destruction.”
“Didn’t society at one time think television would kill the movies? It’s a fictional fear and complaint that our society makes up to disguise the real issues. There is a bigger world out there.”
“Luddites never win, but they do sometimes make getting to the inevitable tortuous for the rest of us.”
“It’s just a shame to see so many on their phones and not talking to each other. Whatever happened to good old person-to-person human contact. There was a lot of good to telephones and television. It’s just hard to see what’s good about people constantly checking out their smartphones. What is so important that they can’t put it down for a few minutes?”
“People used to say that television killed conversation. Times change. People just have to go with the flow.”