In the video I Forgot My Phone by Charlene DeGuzman and Miles Crawford they portray how much cell phones have taken over all of our lives. No matter where we are or who we are with, we all was have our phones with us in our pockets or in our hands and are constantly checking it.I can’t speak for everyone but I know I am guilty of this on a daily basis and I know I am not the only one. It doesn't matter if you are out with friends, on the beach, at the highest mountain peak or proposing to someone, you probably have your phone with you. You probably have been checking it constantly too. Wether it be Twitter, Facebook, Instagram we have to check over and over. The weird part about it is that most of the information is useless and I don’t care about if someone is in a new relationship or someone is bored. So why are we so obsessed with checking it constantly? I couldn’t tell you.
I Forgot My Phone.
This video is a reality check into modern life and hopefully others to put our phones down and live in the moment. After watching this it really made me rethink how much time I really spend on my phone and how I need to learn to put it down a lot more often. I saw this a few months ago and had the same urge to put my phone down and I slowly forgot about it so it’s almost like we need to be constantly reminded if we really wanted to make a change.
I think this is so true in our daily lives, especially with growing up in this generation. Getting your first cell phone roughly around the age of 16 was pretty normal for most people. Back in my parents day, they didn't get a cell phone until they were 25. With all the technology from apple and all the smart phones, it is very easy for people to get caught up on their phone. I myself, try to not use my phone as much when I am with other people. If you stop and take a look in your daily lives, so many people are constantly glued to their phones as if they were born with it. It's sad how our generation is growing up completely dependent on all of the technology and it is very true how many important moments you could miss in your life and how many people you could blow off for your cell phone. It really makes me think what the generation after us is going to be like. This was a very good video into reality.
ReplyDeleteWhen I watch this video I was thinking of all the situations that I have been in that were similar to the video. Its hard to go out with your friends and not have your phone on you. The question is why? I don't know the answer to that question. We are so absorbed with networking sites and media. My first phone was a flip phone and I got that in the 7th grade but I have a niece that is eight and just got her first phone. It's getting even worse with each generation. So the real question is can we stop using our phone so much and put them down, or are we too far into the problem?
ReplyDeletewatching this video and reading this blog post makes me think abou my three cousins in minnetonka whoe to cell phones they are never having family time.They don't talk which other, they don't hang out together, they don't discuss anything together they prefer chating with other friends and so on. Cell phone is a good technology with all the options it offers in communication and so on but it is destroys the human parts of our being.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching this video I can think of many times in my life that my cell phone was more important that the people around me. When I don’t have my phone with me it is almost like I have the feeling of being incomplete because I don’t have the ability to contact my friends and family at any time. In my family we weren’t allowed to have a phone until 7th grade when we started sports and needed to call for a ride home after the game or practice. Now days I have cousins that are 8 and have a cell phone. I think that our generation is getting to caught up in cell phones, social media and just technology as a whole. We need to fix this problem soon or we will be to far into it that it won’t be able to be fixed.
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