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RE: Book review. What screens do to us?

in Hive Book Club3 months ago

I'm old, so I see the change in the decades of people and technology. I still think it's strange to go on public transportation and see everyone with their heads down, instead of looking out the window, like I do and did all my life.

I also notice the parents pushing a stroller with one hand and the phone in the other. The folks walking their dogs, and a phone in one hand. The craziest one has to be the romantic date where each person sits with a phone. The most annoying for me is, when someone asks you a question, and before you finish the answer, they turn away to answer a text.

Thanks for bringing this important topic to light.

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Hey Carolyn! Your answer is so refreshing for me ! I thought I am the only one thinking that what you wrote is crazy, that I might be the one who is not adapting to the "new age". It is crazy that we are living in these days watching how human beings ignore each other and place more value to this piece of plastic than to the other being who is alive. I feel, boy do I feel you! I witnessed the same picture as you did. Your sense of observation is spot on! To notice the little details like a bus trip reveals a lot about the critical point where us as a society are. There is joy in watching a landscape, seing the smile on a baby's face, hearing the trills of a bird.

Romantic dates....let's not even go there! I can remember multiple times when I had to give a warning to the person to stop checking their phone! At a point I gave up realizing it is futile. Screens get people addicted to a life they think is better than the real life they could experice. It looks like we are living in a deeply disturbing world.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts about this!🤗

Yes indeed. It's a disturbing world and I'm actually scared. I really appreciate that you are on my page. It helps that I'm older but I have seen seniors doing the same.

If we could just get the black mirror device users to understand what they're doing.😌

I get scared too thinking how emotionally malnourished people get to be because of these devices. I feel they disconnect us from true , real, face to face interaction. It is a serious matter and I can only witness it and try to make changes in my own life regarding it with the hope that maybe other people will do the same