DoubleBubble:8/30

Our society is slowly becoming more and more technological and is depending more on technology for our everyday needs. For instance with the growth of facebook,it has now become a website that alumni are communicating through. The other day someone said to me how they find out about engagements and weddings through the facebook status' of their friends. I also have realized recently with the tragic deaths of celebrities that I am finding out through other people's facebook status' and since facebook started, it has shifted from college students to mothers, fathers and the older generations. What about the idea of how far cell phone's have come since their earliest days. I remember when car phones were the most technological device. It brings up the question of what is going to come next? From the Nokia black and white phones to the iPhone our society is starting to depend on these technological things in order to communicate. Now on Twitter you can update your status to exactly what you are doing and slowly our society is "updating" themselves with their friends through their 'twits' and through their facebook status'. Now a days kids in our generation rarely will call friends to catch up and instead use text messages to find out what they are up to. What i think is kind of funny is the idea that when you see a 20 year old typing a text message, most of the times they do not have to look at the phone and can type 60 words per minute. When you see our parents typing out text messages most of the times it takes them a minute to type out one word. Our society is so technologically advanced that we are slowly beginning to depend on these things for our everyday needs. In a second you can google on an iPhone or Blackberry an address or phone number, whereas some parents are still depending on the yellow pages. When a 20 year old loses their cell phone, it is the end of their life, because we depend on cell phones so much to do the everyday things faster and quicker. It kind of seems as though our generation in a way is lazy, doesn't it?

The idea that our everyday lives are being made easier and easier because of technology is something that interests me a lot. It seems like society is looking at the things we need to survive the everyday life and basically finding ways to make it easier simply by updating our society. For instance, i think it is very interesting that now you can have your groceries delivered to you because it is a hassle to go to the store and you can just do it online. The cell phone companies are beginning to have an "app" for everything and basically trying to fix every struggle just with the click of a button. As the iPhone commercials say, "there's an app for that". Our generation is lazy and the technology is beginning to come so advance that we are beginning to let go of the old and depend simply on the internet and cell phones for everything.

-DoubleBubble