I'm going to take the time to write this blog mainly to bounce ideas around my head. Since my blog topic is a question and not a statement of my beliefs, I need to consider all sides of the subject to come to my own conclusion. If you ask and adult maybe 40 years and older, they would claim children and young adults today are addicted to technology. However, if you ask a child or young adult if their generation is addicted they would probably say no. I also can't help but notice the difference in responsibility between the ages which I connected with technology uses just yesterday.
Yesterday I carelessly through my phone to my friend confident that she would catch it. Instead it fell to the ground and the screen cracked in the corner. It is small and my phone still works, but I am upset with myself for being so careless with something I use so much. My friend on the other hand has cracked her phone's screen many many times. Her phone still works but you can hardly read the screen. She even cut her finger on the glass once. We are reckless, not always thinking about consequences before we act. We both have damaged what some would say is our "life-lines".
I find this very ironic. If we are so addicted to our phones, why wouldn't we take more care of it? A person addicted to smoking cigarettes would never throw a pack away due to carelessness. I'm not saying I have proven anything, but this idea I have observed is not consistent with an addiction. But then again, maybe people my age just lack responsibility.
I see this as because we know we can just get another new phone in a matter of hours for some people, they find themselves asking the question "why should I care about something if it's so readily available?"
ReplyDeleteThis posed question is very true, why would we not take more care of the items that we rely on so much. We could blame it on our generations faults, but we are one of the first generations to have technology like cell phones through the teenage years. The amounts of activities we do (for college students this may include drinking), and places we go in comparison to our parents leads to many damaged devices. I do not agree with the post above idea that we damage them because they are readily available, because for anyone who has broken a phone, it is very annoying to get a new one, not to mention expensive. We just live our lives with cell phone in hand or pocket, so it is more susceptible to danger.
ReplyDeleteI think it has a lot to do with our generation taking things for granted. We do rely on technology for everything which has caused us to become careless with cell phones, computers, tvs etc. We are the cell phone generation. I know me personally, I don't mean to drop my phone, but it does happen and quite frequently. I agree with Ellen when she says it can be quite expensive if you do not have insurance on your electronics. I don't think its responsibility thats lacking, i just think we don't realize what we have. Majority of teenagers and college students have cell phones and other electronics and we do not take as good of care of them because they are easily replaced. Others may have different opinions.
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