I am 24 years old and hate cell phones.
I’m computer literate enough to write and press the button and release all of my thoughts out unto the universe. iPads, netbooks, television inside vehicles - I don’t understand any of this. If you go out to lunch with a friend, I dare you to count how many times they look, touch, text on their cell phone. This doesn’t bother almost anyone but it bothers me, visiting with people used to be enough, thoughtful convo and a good meal used to be enough for people. Now while we talk to each other we have to browse through a new apps or be having a entirely different convo with someone else with another mode of technology. I wish it’d go away. I love the idea of solitude and entertaining myself with actually actives. It might be my my love for reading and writing, but it seems that almost all of my peers have forgotten about the pleasure of actually knowing and spending time interacting with people, which is sad. And pathetic.
