It is certainly true that one of the most
important things these days is to be well connected with your family and friends
around the world, but do you also communicate with the people around you
in your daily routine?
The Smartphone
is undoubtedly a modern and amazing tool for communication and business . It is the new icon of today’s technology. It allows you to instantly send a message to your
friends, even if they are from another country, and to upload photos to the web
in few minutes, among other features that, according to Smartphone’s users, simplify your life. But are you really
communicating? If you have a friend who’s a Smartphone
user, or maybe you’re one yourself, you probably know what I’m referring to.
For example, think about any person using a Smartphone:
sitting around his friends at college, holding his Smartphone too close to his face, but vaguely talking; one could
say that he’s not present at all. Or remember the last time you hung out with
your friends at a pub, you may remember one of your friends that didn’t say
anything at all sitting there staring his phone, but he WAS talking with other
people that weren’t there or were about to arrive (and never did). (a complementary video explaining the same idea)
I think we need to redefine the meaning of
communication. It makes no sense not to talk in person with other people, but
through those phones. Maybe we are losing our ability to socialize, and it’s
because of that amazing tool, who knows?
I think you are absolutely right. Instead of communicating, Smartphone users are not communicating at all. It makes no sense to use these devices to talk to other people when you are surrounded of them! Why not to take a picture or record a video with your friends when they are next to you?
ReplyDeleteI agree, we are not communicating at all. I don't own any kind of super smart phone because I really dislike when people are sitting in a table but none of them is really present,and also because they are really expensve. It is not possible that technology is keeping us apart from the real world. I have always say that technology should open the doors of efficient communication, instead of closing them.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with all of you. Now, we have plenty of devices to communicate. But, in time with the use of all these devices we have lost the ability to talk and express face to face. As you mention before, if we look around, everybody pay much more attention to their cellphones, laptops, smartphones, etc. Obviously, we are not saying that having one of them is terrible, we are saying that people rely too much on that and the influence on people of this is huge; people depend on that to communicate. They let technology control their lives and keep them apart from the real world, family, and friends. Anyways, it's all up to us to be like the rest of people or to be different using these devices wisely. It is our choice.
ReplyDeleteYeah Daniel, good point there bud. Ithink Ihve an explanation or a certain interpretation of things. People want to have company, or to be more precise, someone to share your experiences with. But, dualities are presents in every aspect of our lives and this case is not the exception; people want to have company but at the same time, they re a bit afraid of showing themselves how they really are, and that's what I think (relying on what I've seen)is the main reason guys are not getting close to others: They are afraid of losing a friend if they, prejudiced at all, realize how they really are.
ReplyDeleteThe remedy for such a feeling is (perhaps) long-distance communication (smartphones?) but parallel to that, it is the reason of people getting away from others as well.
A remedy could be the acceptance and prejudices taken into consideration and taken apart respectively.
"Afraid of losing a friend", that's true, at some point. Because you are losing them anyway, if you "share" with them in a pub and you are with the smarthphone he will feel awkard; and if you are talking to someone through this device you will eventually start to feel closer to that person, and as everything in this world there is a chance of losing.
ReplyDeleteIn my case I wouldn’t carry a smartphone, because I think they are too expensive and it gives me goosebumps to think that the price of that little device could be the salary of an entire family. Nevertheless, I can’t deny that they are really useful, you can even use GPS.I live far away from home so, I don’t think we are losing our ability to socialize through these devices, you can even forge stronger bonds because you can keep in touch all the time. Now the problem is “when” you use your mobile device. There is always a time and place for everything , but it is really annoying when you are talking with someone and they are paying attention to their smartphones instead of you. Therefore, I think that the deeper problem, as we have mentioned, not just here in our blog, but also in class, is the misuse of technology, but not technology itself
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