Welcome to 2013

This is what the verizon consultant told me when I got my iPhone. I just wanted one with Internet and I came out with this lovely phone. Let me tell you, I love my iPhone. It is like having a computer with me at all times. I am currently writing on my blogger app, all the amazing things you can do with technology.                  

 It is weird to have a phone with the abilities it has. We have the world at our fingertips now. Don't know the directions? Look it up. Don't know what year a song came out? Look it up on your google app. We have everything but at the same time we have everything.          

 I am starting to notice how we have everything and we communicate all the time but we can't connect in person. We are in the same room but we are texting other people, Facebook stalking other people, and liking others tweets. I am all for technology but I wonder if we can find balance. Let's have the technology better us by helping us reach out to others. Instead of texting other people at all times, try to connect with people who are actually in the room.                              

 I don't want to sound like one if those old people who complain about how they don't understand how technology works, and they wish for the good old days of typewriters like the guy in you've got mail. I am just saying that we should relearn how to talk in intimate situations. And I don't mean the lovey intimacy, I mean the intimacy of trusting a friend and telling secrets in person. The way we communicated when we didn't have personal computers in our pockets every second.                                                  

So, those are my thoughts on 2013 as the verizon consultant would say, from your not so average 22 year old not so tech savy lady.

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