The pen...or speech...or just being face to face looking in someone's eyes, is it a thing of the past? We loose something now days through social media, twitter, facebook, texting, special deals with a smart phone scanning a coupon. I am old enough now to "remember when". I remember party lines on the telephone that had a wire keeping it in one place and even a dial to use to call a number. Then came the push button phones and the wireless phones and the cell phones and online calling with the computer. People are walking around on the street, in their cars, in stores, restaurants, offices, all talking on cell phones or texting. Heads are down and fingers are typing. People have lost the ability to actually talk face to face. This is progress. Or is it? Children are in front of game stations hooked up to televisions. Times are not like they used to be. It used to be when your children got bored you sent them outside to play in the sand or the dirt or ride a bike or a quick game of basketball or jump rope or building something out of what ever was handy and using imagination to create something. Now I am afraid imagination is something that needs to be looked up in the dictionary in order to even know what it is. This is progress. Or is it? So here I am not talking face to face but blogging...something else new to my generation. This is progress. Or is it?
Yes I think it is progress Lois, some of it but some of it is too much and is in poor taste too. I think it's great to be able to keep in contact with people by blogging and even texting is great in it's place but when people doing while driving it's dangerage and I hate it when I see someone talking on the phone when or texting when they are out to dinner with someone. Hoe rude they are being to that person they are with. So some is good and some is bad. I sure agree with you on the point about the imagination. Kids don't use them enough. I'm always glad to see the kids in our neighborhood when they are out to play or when I hear a basketball bouncing somewhere, knowing there is someone playing a game someplace instead of sitting playing a video game. There is usually allot of kids out playing in our neighborhood which I think is good. Well have a nice week Lois.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is making things impersonal and making people too isolated I think.
ReplyDeleteImagination is something kids need to develop but they don't have much chance with all the tv fed to them.