Why Our Generation Sucks

As I walked around campus today it hit me that our generation sucks. Now, this isn't to make anyone mad, and I am part of all this, so don't hate me. So why does our generation suck? I think it can be summed up in two words: smart phones. As a server I see couples or families coming out to eat and every single one of them are on their phone instead of talking. I hate that, when did we stop even being able to talk to our family?

We have come so dependent on phones that we have forgotten how to be real people. We don't want to talk on the phone, we want to text. Now, texting really is a great thing, and I do it a lot, but the fact that it is replacing our actual conversations is heart breaking. It is like we have forgotten how to be a human and we are kinda like robots. One thing that I hate more than anything is when I'm trying to talk to someone and they are texing someone else. Really, you can't just wait to text back until our conversation is over? 

The fact that Facebook and Twitter are at our fingertips 100% of the time is really annoying. Once again, I am including myself in this, because I check Facebook a lot. If you walk into a classroom 5 minutes before it starts, I promise you will see over half of the people sitting there on Facebook or Twitter. Is everyone else's lives so exciting that we must know everything they are doing? Why do we post our whole lives for the world to see? What happened to privacy? The fact that we can't use Facebook only in our free time means we have forgotten about real people interaction. Back in the day when I would walk into the classroom on that first day I would always strike up a conversation with someone sitting near me, but now I don't. Why? I don't need to, I'm checking out the world of Facebook. Apparently reading about a kid I spoke to twice in high school  going to the grocery store is much more exciting than meeting a new person, right? Wrong. 

The dumbest social media outlet that has taken over is Snapchat. I have Snapchat, and every time I send a snap I think to myself, this is so dumb, why am I doing this.  What is the point of sending a picture to someone that they can only see for like 10 seconds? We have forgotten how to really chat and now we just know how to Snapchat. 

So how does this mean that our generation suck? We suck because we are robots! We don't create friendships like we used to, we can't have real conversations, and we no longer talk on the phone. We are a social group of people and the only way we know how to be social is while looking at a screen. 

I'm not saying texting, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are bad, I'm saying the addiction they have created is. Count how many times you get on Facebook, Twitter, or Snapchat in a day. I think the number will amaze you. Try having a real conversation with someone, instead of being glued to your phone. Look up, see the beauty in people and in the world around you. Notice other people's faces, their voice, what they are saying instead of posting.  Let's learn to be a humans again, let's pull away from the fact that we are turning into robots.