Cell Phone Addiction... and some of y'all thought people would grow up lonely

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/09/05/219266779/our-cultural-addiction-to-phones-in-one-disconcerting-video

The cultural shift is complete. We're all just alone with our smartphones, even when we're surrounded by other humans.

The extent of our obsession with capturing every moment instead of merely just experiencing them is highlighted in the viral short film, I Forgot My Phone. It's now at nearly 20 million views and if you haven't seen it, you must have gone without your phone too long.

Charlene deGuzman — who wrote and stars in the film — shows scenes that can hit too close to home, saying something about how we often use technology at the expense of forging real, human connections. Artists use hyperbole to express a truth, but when NPR editor Avie Schneider first saw this, he said, "This is not that exaggerated."

 

In the age of technology, not only we'll further wind up losing any sense of self-sufficiency, but we may also experience some level of social interaction between two or more people to prove to be more cumbersome than imagined.

 

This is an all too-true and too-sad depiction of life. I'm just as guilty of it, even as I see it when I go out and shake my head at it. I feel naked without my cell phone and yet I hate that I feel that way.

 

So many iPhone things. I could fix them all if they broke.

Is it ironic that I watched that video on my own iPhone?
Which, btw, I am never without.

 

I am not the most tech-savvy guy around. I mean, it took me years to get into buying cds because I liked vinyl records(hearing every pop or scratch sound is memorable). I prefer the days when you went to an employer to apply for a job. You saw each other face to face after you handed in that paper application. Now, employers want you to fill out an application and send a resume online. To me, that is probably the biggest brushoff ever. Data can be lost online. Or they don't even look at it. It took some time before I got my first cell phone. I am using my younger brother's computer or the computer at the library(it's funny that they consider this site pornographic,but I don't argue with them). It will take a while for me to use the technology that exists today.

 

Three words:
Men's locker room.

 

It took 60 years before warning labels were placed on cigarette packages....it will take longer than that before warning labels are put on cell phones.

Everytime you use a cell phone you are exposed to the same radiation as an x-ray or a CAT scan.

They produce absurd levels of ionizing micro-wave radiation.

 

It's new and fun but will eventually lose its appeal just like tv. I think the new fad will.be to actually experience life and to stop recording everything because it's becoming old hat.