Tonight a friend posted a plea for help on her Facebook. It seems her three-year-old daughter was playing with her iPod and afterwards her audio book was playing in fast forward, despite attempts to power it off and back on. I love to figure things out, so I did what I always do when I need to know something - I googled it. And I was able to find a solution to said problem. Love it! What I love even more is the way technology allows us to toss out a question to our friends and then go back to doing other things like washing dishes or doing homework. It gives us the freedom to check back for the answer once we find another spare moment, and does not force us to do extensive research when we just don't have the time. She was busy. I was not. Her problem was solved and everyone is happy.
Texting works the same way. I am able to send little messages throughout the day to let my partner know how things are going, or that I'm thinking about him, and he is able to read and respond when he has a spare minute, and so on. It allows us to stay connected when we are both caught up, doing our own thing. This is important to me because when I am in school mode and he is working, our schedules just don't mesh. And without the use of these technologies, we might go whole days without communicating on some level. Some people believe that these types of technologies are diminishing traditional social interactions. Maybe that is the case for some, but I still engage in other forms like face-to-face conversation, Skyping, or phone calls. I think I just have more options than I did before.
Do you think technology helps or hinders your connections?
Texting works the same way. I am able to send little messages throughout the day to let my partner know how things are going, or that I'm thinking about him, and he is able to read and respond when he has a spare minute, and so on. It allows us to stay connected when we are both caught up, doing our own thing. This is important to me because when I am in school mode and he is working, our schedules just don't mesh. And without the use of these technologies, we might go whole days without communicating on some level. Some people believe that these types of technologies are diminishing traditional social interactions. Maybe that is the case for some, but I still engage in other forms like face-to-face conversation, Skyping, or phone calls. I think I just have more options than I did before.
Do you think technology helps or hinders your connections?
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