Your childhood is a time to play, take naps and have fun. It's about enjoying life before we have to take on responsibilities as an adult. However, the children of today are no longer participating in normal childhood activities. Instead, they are assuming the role of mini-adults. They have become dependent on cell phones and computers. The newest technology is ruining childhoods across America.
It was during the beginning of my senior year of high school when I really started to notice the technology takeover. My school decided to add Wi-Fi into all of their classrooms, so teachers could start using technology to teach lessons. By the time it started, everyone was pumped for what was going to happen. The previous three years, everyone had to turn off their phones and actually listen to the teachers. With Wi-Fi, no one listened in class and instead decided to text, FaceTime and play around on their phones. I will admit to falling prey to this. I was constantly looking at my device when the teacher was looking away, and I texted during class. In fact, part of the grading criteria during this time was how much the student was on their phone. Suffice to say that most students were not doing well in their classes. With this being said, I can only imagine how Wi-Fi has affected the younger children, who have much lower attention spans than teenagers.
Wi-Fi in elementary and middle schools has its consequences. Instead of going outside for recess, kids have the option to use their cell phones and stay inside. I remember a time when no one would want to be stuck inside a classroom instead of going outside. Why go outside and interact with others, when they could just sit around with their phones? Another possibility is that when going outside, everyone just huddles around outside, under a tree, looking at their phones, texting people they are sitting next to.
There was a time in life when kids actually looked forward to going to school to see people they had not seen or talked to since the last time they were at school. There would be reunions outside of the schools before classes started. Kids would huddle up and talk about their vacations. Things have changed. Kids can FaceTime each other while on vacation. They can text message each other instead of spending quality time with each other. The "quality time" spent with one another is through texting. Even sitting around in classrooms, people rarely talk, but instead send text messages to each other.
This world is so obsessed with technology. People barely ever communicate in person anymore. No one knows his or her phone numbers anymore. As sad as it is, as adults, we are like this. Now, the younger generations are getting like this. As more technology gets released, it is just going to get worse in the years to come.
