Last night at our favorite bar and grill we were discussing our high school freshman's honors biology exam, specifically the question, "Explain why you should tell your friends not to be on their cell phones all the time."
We all knew he would ace this because he has been warned of the abyss of technology from us many many times. He wrote on his test that too much written communication like facebook, texts etc change the nature of relationships and if overused can make you less social and maybe even socially awkward...because you don't see the person you are communicating with. I wanted to expand on this and began to tell them about what happens when ladies use botox,... because botox erases facial expressions the persons they are talking to can't truly decipher what is being said and subconsciously change their facial expressions to expressionless! .... because we naturally mimic the other persons face movements when we are in a conversation... and now everything is distorted. ...I could tell by THEIR facial expressions they had NO idea what I was talking about and they didn't really care about ladies who use botox. My husband realized this too. and offered a more relevant example. ( He is a lawyer. ) He told us, "Yes! This is what the foundation of our whole justice system is based upon! As a witness you MUST appear in person in front of a jury..so the jury can see you, see your facial expressions, to judge if you are telling the truth." Interested now! .....
How ironic that I would be writing a blog!
I have seen kids many times who are hanging out together texting to each other and the person is sitting next to them and as an adult I sit in a room where we IM each other news and info all day..and we sit 2 feet from each other...what a world......like your post!
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