I'm Concerned....

I love smartphones, and all the stuff you can do on them. You can talk, text, surf the web, get GPS and do all sorts of other useless crap.

Why walk outside and experience the weather when you can look at it on your phone?

Why drink beer when you can pretend to with this iPhone app?

Why watch TV on a normal sized screen when you can squint into
one that's roughly 3.5 inches?

While nothing would make me happier than paying .99 for an application called HelpMe! An app which basically amounts to a speed dial button for 911, because I'm sure paging through your apps is easier than just dialing 911, its time for people to give their phones a break and use them, well, as phones. The last time you used your phone, chances are you sent a text. Now, as a person who is currently in possession of an archaic cellphone and doesn't have texting on it at all, I understand that every now and then it would come in handy. Say when sitting in a boring class, hanging around at a boring job or just trying to avoid the ever awkward sexile. That being said, people still need to start speaking into their phones once in a while. Its like they're afraid of real human interaction.

This problem isn't even limited to friend to friend situations. We have become so inept at speaking to one another, that we now can't even order delivery. Want Domino's? Fear talking to that man designated at the other end of the phone line to take your order? No worries! just go online, check off your food, pump in your address and watch your order as its being created.

Stalker.

I'm not saying its a bad thing to do stuff in a new or different way. I'm saying its weird when people end up having more personal relationships with the devices created to supposedly increase human connectivity rather than with the humans they are being connected to.