I don't think this is what Steve Jobs meant for our society, with our phones in hand, we have somehow managed to isolate ourselves together. Guys walk around with so much easy access to porn, they are getting bored of it. Girls who were already absorbed with their looks have this device that allows them to spread their beauty to one and all across the land. My folks come and visit and not only my mom is wholly connected, specially through Facebook, but my dad, who still needs for me to turn on the TV and cable box when he comes over has his own little tablet and he sits there and looks at basically stupid stuff for entertainment. I am just as guilty, I am not saying I am better than anyone, but to what end? Yeah, everyone screams "I am done with FB or the internet..." every once in a while, like most teenage boys saying this will be the last time I play with myself before New Year's Eve as a resolution to be better only to go back and punch the clown the next day when the urge strikes.
Anyways, I was starting to think this was all just a waste of our time, but then my mom told me that my aunt got a fancy phone and it has changed her world. She suffers from agoraphobia, which is a fear of leaving the house and being in public. I don't think I have ever known her to leave her house, maybe she visited our house once when we were little, but even that I am not sure ever happened. Anyways, the last time my folks were here and we were driving around to go eat or whatever, my mom got a call from her. I thought it was the coolest thing, here is a person who is deathly afraid to go out, but through the use of social media, she can keep up with what we are doing, where we are at and potentially feel like she has seen a world bigger than her windows or even the television can show.
This is the rare moment that I will say these little computers in our hands are doing someone actual good. I only say because even when going to a nice restaurant, we can't sit there and be in the moment, most people have to be interacting with others who aren't even there and that seems rude to me. I was kidding, guys don't get tired of porn, we just need to look for weirder and weirder porn when it seems we are bored, thank you internet.
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