Generation...

Crackberry's, iphones, driod's, touch screens, sliders, flip phones, etc... We all have one. A cell phone. Something we have on us daily, text on it daily, and make a call or two. After writing my first generation piece I spoke with friends just in a conversation and they said how disrespectful, disconnected, and mean our generation and those below us are. Many elders liek to say those younger than them are "bratty kids", but now they can say it all they want. Can we blame a cell phone for truly creating this environment? I would like to say no, sure we can blame society, parents, schools, friends, etc. Why do we need to blame someone? Our generation has been forced to grow up and stay young to fast. We were handed a cell phone, well most of us in middle school, told how to use a computer in elementary school, and giving ways to communicate faster than any other generation.
Those older say it is a wonderful thing we were given, technology. But does it stop being wonderful and become a problem? Kids do not hang out with their friends outside anymore. When driving do you have an issues of hitting a kid playing with his friends in the street or are you more worried about the animals in the road? Kids are not being active outside anymore, they stay indoors on this wonderful technology all night, becoming sleep deprived. The New York Times did an article on the early issues set on my texting. When your young you need to be active adventures, finding who you are and what the world is. Instead of searching we google it. Instead of finding the world, we type it into navigation and have a device direct us.
I envy the older generations. The way they thought and saw the world will never been seen today. We can still have a few old souls, but actually reading a book, one with multiple pages, in the hundreds department, and pages, not a kindle. Today if the first page is not interesting we throw the book away. People used to go dozen to 100 pages deep before giving up on a book. Now many people don't even publish a book, they create a blog, like this, and share.