Techno Life

We live in a techno age with our cells, computers, blogs, facebook, myspace, texting, ipods, mp3s, and on and on. On top of that, we have reality shows, not quite reality! But nothing replaces relationships.

I was listening to a show yesterday where the host was having a discusstion about how much young people text, based on a statistical report dated in 2008. At that time the stats showed young people texting over 2000 texts a month. So, of course, by now, the stat is higher than that. Wow, Wow. He also talked about the thumb cramps and physical problems they're experiencing from texting so much. He went on to share all of the ways young people get around not being seen while texting in school and everywhere else.

My generation and those before my generation, I believe we're ok in the since, we were the last generation to have both worlds in many ways. We related, we know some old school because we were the last to be raised under the old school ways. Yet, we were the beginning of all these changes that continue to bloom. Rap & Hip Hop as we know it, computers, video games, head phones, etc. started with us, but continues to graduate into quite a mountain!

Many of the young people who came after have had a whole life of techno and less of relationships. Lacking communication skills and spelling, etc. because of how they communicate. I enjoy the different social sites, but I have been raised in a life of relationship, dialogue. I know how to spell, yet I know a few abbrevs. too.

The adults in these young peoples lives need to be careful not to send them off into techno land without building up relationships, communication and the like. They should be well grounded and connected in real reality and know how to still sit down and actually talk to one another. Limit the technology and get back to relating. For those who never really had it, get started with true relating. I mean, think about it, you have young ones standing in front of each other, texting each other instead of talking to each other right there!

P.S. It's one thing when your grounded in real reality, grounded in how to communicate and build and have real relationships with one another. But I sense many who grew up only under technology, technology will not know a real relatable world. It will become a lost art if the adults in their lives do not commit to build it in their lives. I can enjoy these things within moderation and still have these skills because I grew up in a world where you wrote hand written, personal letters, cards, invitations. You sat at a table and listened, learned, talked. You related. Be careful of the abbreviated life in your relationships and in your abbreviated text world. Make sure you know how to actually have relationships and how to spell and talk to people!