My Look On Social Media and Cellular Devices

I believe cellular devices have pros and cons. Many people will disagree or agree with them. They can be helpful when we need to know information as a specific time and there is not a computer near by. Cons, there are so many. We live in a society where we feel like we cant live without our phone being in our hand or at least on us. We feel the need to always be on it or always be checking up on the latest social media posts.

Last weekend, my boyfriend and I had gone out to dinner. Once we got seated I looked around me for about two minutes and just observed what I saw. I was so surprised to see so many people on some sort of electronic device or if they weren't on it it was sitting on the table in front of them. What surprised me the most that it wasn't just the teenagers it ranged from older people to adults to teenagers to even younger children. Why come to dinner if you're just going to be on electronics? Just stay home. The whole purpose of going out to eat is to enjoy it. To enjoy the opportunity to get to go out and have dinner with who ever you're with. Every time my family and I go out to eat we all have to leave our phones in the car or at home because it is rare we ever all are together and get to have dinner together because we all are so busy that we like to be able to have actual conversations without distractions.

Relating to David Brooks article "Intimacy for the Avoidant" the quote " Being online isn't something we do. It has become who we are ..." which is so true. We can do so much online that we don't know any better or any other way. We are so tied up with what we know that we can't just stop. We're all okay with just sticking to being addicted to our cellular devices. Another quote from Brooks is "A lot of this traffic is driven by the fear of missing out." We as people feel if we are not refreshing our social media every couple seconds that we could miss out on something and people just aren't okay with the "missing out" feeling that they get. So therefore people will forever be sucked up in there cellular devices.