Phones have Become Clothing....... Almost

The Worlds Biggest Distraction             In class this week we had some interesting discussions. The debate about whether or not Facebook would be around for the foreseeable future had many good talking points that I wasn’t able to think of on my own. While I still believe that it will be replaced eventually, I can now see that it will take something huge to take it down. The best argument that I heard for why that was is the fact that Facebook as a company has learned how to constantly evolve to include new features while not completely redesigning its whole structure. This model allows it to attract younger and more tech savvy people while maintaining its older and more basic client base. With this now apparent to me, it is easy to see that Facebook will continue to be the dominant social media for the foreseeable future. One talking point on this subject for why Facebook killed previous social media sites is the fact that it...

As a generation of students who have for the most part been around technology since we were young, it has become apparent that many of us rely heavily on our gadgets. Based on the discussions and comments that I have read from my fellow classmates it is obvious that we all look at our phones as an accessory that has the same level of importance to us as clothes. One of my fellow classmates described their reliance on technology as feeling naked without it. This is true for most of the younger generations of adults and now even children. Anywhere you go where there is a wait the first natural inclination patrons have is to pull out their phones and bury there faces in it and become cut of from the outside world. It has become so commonplace now that even when people don’t have their phones out they feel uncomfortable like they don’t know what to do or how to act. This behavior has severely limited our face-to-face interaction skills, and has also slowed us down from...