Seeing as the Ipod is a big part of my life, and I mean big (I'm actually listening to it right now), I thought I'd write about it for this activity.
Most wouldn't think much about the Ipod and it's effect on society today but I think it's pretty important. People use technology so much these days and it's hard to believe where we started. I believe the Ipod is important because a lot of our society (its seems to be mostly young people, esp teens) just shuts everything and everyone out now. You pop on/in your headphones and you're (usually) oblivious to everything and everyone around you.
Besides the music, there are videos, movies, pictures, and so many apps you can get for your Ipod. It's truly amazing what you can find! Anything you can think of, it's probably an app: games, books, maps, browsers, etc. By adding all of these extra things it adds to shutting people out. With everything at your fingertips, who needs the presence of people? I mean, if you don't have a phone, just download textplus and there ya go, you can talk to all of your friends just like that.
I think this has had a pretty big change on society. Before, people always wanted to be around others, laughing, creating memories. Now, sometimes people will turn down plans just to sit in their room with their Ipod or other technology like cellphones and laptops/computers. If your friends really want to talk you can always just skype.
We're losing the love of being around people. Don't you remember being little and playing outside with your friends, having sleepovers for days on end, and not texting at all or minimally? Let's go back to those days, when we loved company and hated being alone. I miss them.
I don't have a iPod, but that doesn't mean I don't have other technologies. I totally understand what you are saying, and I definitely miss those days when people were more important than cell phones, computers, etc. I wish we could go back, but I have accepted that there is unfortunately not a chance of that happening.
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