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 mingling with people outside of our close circle and demographic which could have dire consequences. For example back before the technological explosion people at any kind of office had to talk and interact with people who could have been older, younger, or from a different way of life which made people better rounded and able to adapt to unfamiliar circumstances. Another sociological aspect in which phones are similar to clothes is that if you miss the latest trend or don’t switch over in time you become dated and viewed as an outcast. This analogy is supported by the story of our professor who missed the email advancement and when he re-entered the world he was so far behind and had missed a major world development. The same could be said for someone who misses the latest clothing trends and how they are viewed strangely with many people wondering if there is something wrong with them. This kind of ideology is dangerous because it can cause social stratification between generations and within generations. This stratification can come from the disconnect that social media can cause and also due to the fact that a little bit of superiority can be felt by people who know how to work the latest and greatest technology/social media, when in reality its not that others can’t learn how to use this new technology but that they choose not to for personal reasons. A closing thought I would like to leave you with is that technology and social media like clothes are here to stay and constantly changing.