For myself, personally, I find my phone is attached to my hip. I call it my "lifeline". I live by my phone. It holds my notes, my calendar, my contacts, my alarm clock, etc. I have apps that connect to social networking, my bank, music, Google+, and even my fitness tracker that includes where I track what I eat daily. And it even holds photos. I am pretty sure that if I lost that phone, I would be in total mortification.
However, I make a point, when I am spending time with my daughter, to put the phone away. In fact, she makes it a rule that when we are together, no phone. Dinner time is no phone time.
It is convenient, to say the least, everything all nice and compacted into one little black device. All within my reach. Now, can I put the phone down anytime I want? Yes I can, and I have.
I won't deny that I have come to depend that little black device of many "talents".
I asked a friend this same question, does she feel that technology controls or does she control technology? She feels the two are intertwined and that one doesn't work without the other. We control technology because it is improved everyday. However, we become reliable upon technology, such as our phones, to make things more convenient for us.
You are with a group of many Amanda as people are beginning to depend on their phone for everything as well as their e-mails. never thought making a call with a cell phone though would come second to anything but alas it has but I think only to 'text".
ReplyDeleteAmanda, good for you for setting boundaries as to when you use and do not use technology. This boundary-setting is the main thing I see missing among our culture's current technophilia. Keep up the good work!
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