I've written about this before but have been watching my nephew's children as they post on Facebook and even him, as far as that goes and it has made me wonder if progress is really that good for our young people today.
With their little codes for texting, they have expanded to their posting on forums, Facebook, even in their emails. It is a code that takes some deciphering at times. And is it helpful or harmful?
I wonder how they are really doing in school, when they have to use proper English rules and the biggest subject of all - Spelling. Why don't our schools put this form of "new language" down. It really is showing the ignorance and dummy down of the young people today. You can hear it in their conversation and heaven forbid you have to read something they have written. It is next to impossible.
Sorry, but I just can't condone it and do not plan to incorporate it into my life in any means. I keep correcting them and asking if they know how to speak correctly or spell correctly. They laugh it off but it really does make me wonder.
And why do they think they have to have a hand held contraption in their hand to keep in touch with the rest of the world 24/7. But again, I've seen some adults who have to have their cells phones glued to their ears and even some who have to have the latest in inventions so they can "stay in touch". What happened to our socializing face to face?
My grandson has one and there is no way that I know an Ipod from a Blackberry and to be truthful, I really don't care and don't want to know. I will say the cell phone is a good thing as it gives you the capability of calling for help or assistance if you are stranded, but to use it for a constant source of information and to be so totally engrossed in it, that you don't see the rest of the world passing you by, then I say it is not a good thing.
Maybe I'm just in one of my moods today but I just feel that sometimes progress is not as good as some may think it is. Of course, many of you know that I am against the electronic readers. And to prove my point that they are only a passing fancy which will destroy the world of books, they have already started with book stores shutting down, scaling down and in general moving away from the bound books that we grew up with. One that you could curl up with and read on a winter's day or even in the shade on a summer day. One which could take you on an imaginary trip to a wonderful make believe world, or perhaps one to inform you on current events. Either way, it was a form of escape. But now that has been compromised with a piece of black plastic and a small screen, which by the way is very harmful to the eyesight and they are now realizing that.
Perhaps one day, when everyone needs glasses in order to see the fingers on their hands right in front of their faces, their eyesight ruined by all these electronic devices, they might see the light but I wonder what "Progress" will come up with next to compensate. The blind leading the blind?
Maybe it is time we all step back and take a good look at Progress and decide if it is really for the good of society or is it leading us down a path from which we might not ever return to normal life where we actually use our brains and our senses to experience the real world. Something to think about, isn't it?
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