WHAT RAFAELA THINKS
Phubbing
This article talks about this one new tendency, which is called "phubbing". In what consists phubbing? Well, it's the combination of the words phone and snubbing. This text reflects what is our reality today, because it took out real life people to testimony various points of view.
In a way at the text goes by we are capable to understand in which ways "phubbing" affects the relationships in our days.
And, that was the reason why I picked this article. We, as human beings are being controlled by the technologies and it's like an addiction to us.
For us, it's impossible to pass a day or even an hour without texting someone, sending a photo, or just scrolling down on Facebook, or Instagram. Statistics don't lie! According to the article "In a recent Baylor University study of 143 people in romantic relationships, 70 percent said that cell phones "sometimes," "often," "very often" or "all the time" interfered in their interactions with their partners."
People reached the point of not paying attention to their date just for be on the phone, sometimes (or most of the times) doing not of special.
Its not a new for us that the new technologies, the Media products (apps, sites) are ruining many relationships and it does not surprise me at all.
People comfort themselves on the phones, they talk to other people, they can even make shopping online without leaving their houses!
So the phone is like an dependence and a need nowadays for us.
It can be very pleasurable but also many dangerous and destructive (in the case of ruining relationships), so we have to be careful and do not exaggerate on them.
Being dependent on Texting
As we all know children are nowadays addicted to their phones. The problem in here is that they're not used to interact with other people in real life.
It may sound weird, but it is true. They don't know how to have a conversation without looking at their phones at every 2 minutes.
They lost the capacity to start a conversation, to be imaginative, and to develop one chat.
They don't know how to deal in the middle of a conflict, they always have the telephone able to "help" (at least is what they think) in a difficult situation.
It doesn't have to be difficult, they even use the phone to avoid social interaction like in an elevator when a strange enters in, they pull out the smartphone and start texting (sometimes are just faking it) to avoid eye contact.
I don't even mentioned the fact of the teens break up by text message what shows that they're avoiding social contact in every way.
If we start thinking, how will the adults in the future be, we don't have a clear response because if the "trend" continues to be like this, probably the children will turn into adults without social skills, unable to be polite in some circumstances, or just to behave normally.
URL: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/09/children-texting-technology-social-skills_n_1137570.html