A True Social Life

I think that today's society is very influenced and dependent upon social networking devices. Such as facebook, twitter, texting, email, etc. I'm guilty of this as well. I also believe that our generation is one that is totally dependent upon these things. Now days, when someone has arrived at your house to pick you up they will text you "I'm here" instead of knocking on the door, saying hi to whoever is home and then be on your way. Even though there are so many benefits, advantages, and just interesting things about the social media, I find it pretty sad that it has become such a major part of everyones life. For example, I know a lot of teens will ask out the person they like over texting or maybe even facebook, and in a few years from now that might be the most romantic way to be asked out, but what ever happened to doing something so special in person? Teenagers especially depend and thrive off of the internet. They can read summaries of a book they need to read for english instead of actually reading the entire thing, they can google the answers to homework questions. There's just so many things that one can do without even thinking for themselves. I'll admit I do all of this from time to time. The internet is a pretty big part of my life and I guess as years go on it'll only continue to grow. I just wish sometimes that it wasn't so addicting or that it just all stopped for a day, just to see what things would be like. I wish that there were more face to face conversations instead of just texting. I think that there are just somethings that are meant to be said in person. The whole point of this post I guess was just to say that yes our generation is pretty big on internet and texting and all of that, but I think that because we're so intrigued by it that we miss out on having a real social life.