A young couple is on a date at a fancy restaurant. However, both of them are not paying attention to each other, they are both looking at their cell phones. A young family is sitting in the living room watching a movie. The son is on his laptop playing a video game. The daughter is on her phone checking her text messages and social media. The father is checking the news on his phone, and the mom is playing games on her iPad. The family isn’t really spending time together or watching the movie. They are stuck in a social networking loop.

Why do we ignore the people around us for social media? Because of society’s addiction to social media, we end up missing opportunities of fun throughout our day. Couples miss out on spending time with each other when they choose to look aimlessly through their phones instead of enjoying their date night with each other. We are so worried about checking to see who texted or who is playing that new game that we miss the special moments with people who are right besides us.

People get so caught up in social media, wanting to have the most likes on their photos, wanting their life to be as perfect as the other person’s profile, needing to play a certain phone app as soon as they can, that they actually forget to live their life. We must start living life again instead of being plugged in. We need to start enjoying movies while not looking at our phones. We need to start going out on dates and paying attention to our significant other instead of our phones. Once we do this, the sun gets a little brighter, movies become more enjoyable, relationships get better and life in general becomes more enjoyable.

Trust me, it is so much more fun to enjoy the moment unplugged, instead of being plugged in.