I recently came across the cartoon below in Newsday. Just to properly give credit where credit is due, it was apparantly picked up from the Seattle Post and was created by David Horsey. I think it’s a brilliant illustration of just how plugged in we’ve become but I wanted to share a bit of irony here.
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Yes, we have become experts at posting our Status Updates on Facebook, Twitter or your social networking platform of choice, but have you noticed just how disconnected we have become from (what I like to call) Life Proper?
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In my family, it is almost impossible to catch the four of us together where one, two or all of us are not attached to some sort of device. We are out to dinner. We are at the Yankee game. We are at a school concert. Someone is always removed from the moment and distracted by Blackberry, IPhone or just texting a friend. Yes, we may be Tweeting to the world about what we are doing, but are we really “there”? Not really. Not enough in my opinion. This is a commentary on the way the world is changing and how social media has impacted the way our children are growing up, their modes of communication and their interactions with the world around them.
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Our kids do not communicate the way we did. And they won’t in the future. Look to my future blogs to enlighten you about how far kids are going to shorten, abbreviate otherwise alter their native language. You will be shocked. This goes way beyond ROFL and POS (Rolling On Floor Laughing and Parent Over Shoulder).
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If you didn’t know those two, we have our work cut out for us. Keep checking back.
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This has been your Daily Bone.
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