Observing Fellow Students
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| (Picture courtesy of Google Images) |
During this observation I decided to walk around the busiest
parts of campus and observe students and their use of technology. The
information I gained and situations I encountered were shocking to me. More
than 80% of the students I either walked by or observed were engorged in their
smart phones and laptops that they seemed oblivious to the outside world and
the people around them. While walking to the cafeteria I witnessed at least
three times where students almost ran into each other because they had their
head down and they weren’t paying attention. To me, this is truly sad. We all
know that we love our cell phones, but are they really that important that we
have to practically trample over other people to get to our desired
destination? The answer to that question is no. When I finally made my way over
to the cafeteria the first thing I noticed was that no matter if someone was
sitting with a friend or by themselves, they almost always had their cell
phones or music playing devices out. The cafeteria is a place for
socialization. A place where you should be able to unplug from your technology
for a bit so you can have a real social interaction with a human being rather
than some words on a screen. If society
continues at the rate it is going I fear that technology will have taken over
our day to day routines and we will no longer want to, or have the need to
engage in face-to-face social activities.
This video shows how technology can and is addictive (Video courtesy of YouTube)
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