The Beginning

It was said that God created the world in six days, it took Thomas Edison over 10,000 attempts to create the light bulb and it took Apple about five years to create the first Iphone. You must now be thinking what is the point in this blog. In short there is no point to it.

I have just finished my second year at University and as most students do I have come home for the summer. I live in a small village with very few friends here so like every young person I have become bored with my life. This is the reason I have started a blog. I want to see if my life really is as boring as I think it is. Therefore this is the beginning of something new.

So where to start?

I suppose the best place to start with this is what I'm thinking about now ... My Iphone. I'm not going to lie, without this phone I don't think my life would function. It has my calendar with what I'm doing from day to day, it has the internet so I can use Facebook and Twitter when ever I want plus it has a camera so I can document and look back at fun times I have had. But the more I think about it, phones were invented to help communication between people not cut it off. Yes we all text and we all call each other , some of us even facetime but it raises the question of what happened to people having a face to face conversation and spending time together? When using your mobile you miss the subtle tones of voice, someones facial expressions and body language. When you meet someone in person you can tell from these things if you trust the person or if you are going to like them but on a mobile you don't get this gut reaction because your in a virtual world. Now with technology you can be whoever or whatever you want. You can say your a high end business man with a happy and normal life but then in reality your a bored old man who only has his dog and the television to keep him company. In a way texting is a dangerous game to play way to get to know someone. I say this from experience, it wasn't dangerous but it made me realise that people can say what you want to hear over a text and then in person they are just strange and not the sort of person you want to associate yourself with. In a way what I'm saying relates more to the internet and chat rooms. Don't get me wrong I love technology as much as the next person my age but when I'm with my friends and there phone is buzzing or ringing every ten seconds I feel like just leaving and seeing how long it takes for them to notice. Are our mobile phones becoming more of a friend than our actual human friends? Technology is evolving every day and as a race we are becoming a slave to it, most of us struggling to last a few days without it. Maybe it's just how today's society survives in the world or maybe we are just becoming more ignorant to the world around us.

After that rant I suppose I will leave you to think about what I have written or let you get back to your work.

Until next time

SummerGirl xoxo

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

~Carl Sagan