A while back my wife and I took our 3 kids out to dinner to a local pizzeria. We get there and we see that there are 2 adults sitting at a table for 6 and a kid sitting at the other large table by himself playing his Nintendo DS. Fine the kid just does not want to be near his parents. So my wife asks if he is sitting there and could we have the table. His parents reply, very nicely that they are waiting for their friends and they need both tables. Cool no problem, they even help us put tables together. Very cool, so why you may ask am I writing this. Ahh, just wait.
So the other families show up and the kid barely looks up from his game to acknowledge new people. Then the other kids, and I mean all of them, whip out their DS's. Now I don't know much about these things but it seemed like the kids joined him in his game and they were chatting about the game, via the game. That's right not one spoken word, and they were sitting right next to each other.
In this day and age of technology the spoken word and parts of the written word are being lost. kids are losing the ability to deal with anybody face to face. Yes I know this seems like an exaggeration but it is true. I see it in the schools. The kids from the lower income homes who cannot afford the fancy toys like the DS are actually better able to communicate face to face than the kids in my neck of the woods. The lower income people might not have the best grammar, but then again not everybody does no matter what their economic situation, but theses kids actually have the ability to be social and deal with their peers better than the kids who had the expensive messaging phones or the DS or any number of high priced gadgets.
Yes my medium to get my point across is via a laptop on a website reaching out to the world, but I still speak with people everyday using my mouth and without adding emoticons in my sentences.
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