Technology, the Murderer of Small Talk? Guilty as Charged.

Howdy fellow Pioneers. Have your assignments been raging war with your sleep cycle? I've been staying up later than usual myself, trying to keep up with my classes. It's not all bad, though. I love me some sleep, but some of my assigned reading has been pretty interesting. Take this article for instance, "Technology, the Cause of Possible Mutilation and the Murder of Small Talk. I say, somewhat hypocritically, (I am using the internet right now, after all) that technology has done nothing for most people's social skills. I can safely say that Ijeoma Anaka agrees with me, as her article was all about the pitfalls of modern technology. She goes so far as to claim that iPhones, laptops and other technological devices are destroying our ability to communicate IRL (see what I did there? ;)) Is my beloved iPhone really ruining my health, or worse - my social life? That what this article asserts. More convincing might be my friend, Gabby, who is having an online relationship with a guy that she won't actually go out in person with. The one time they went on a real date, she refused to talk to him. It's probably telling that despite that disastrous date, they were both happy to resume their online romance. I can't knock her. It does feel safer, somehow, to hide behind the screen. I'm too young to worry much about my health. But didn't that article say something about turning into a hunchback??? What the hunch? Medical deformity was definitely not mentioned in the user's manual of my Apple iPhone. And even I have noticed that people struggle to talk in complete sentences - much less write them. Is that the fault of a society that has come to rely heavily on texting? Maybe we're all just getting stupider in a reverse evolution kind of way. IDK. At least no one will be able to see my hump if I leave my camera off.

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