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Montana Miller
February 25, 2013
Period One
Socially Awkward
Everyone says “live life to the fullest”, but are you really living your life if your face is super glued to a computer or cell phone? Can you remember about a decade ago, 2003, when children born in the 1990’s actually participated in life? It is now 2013 and we have all grown up to be so dependent on technology, with some worse than others. Technology is supposed to improve our lives; however, it’s creating socially awkward young adults.
In today’s day, technology has made perfectly normal teens into hermit crabs, staying in their house the whole day, only talking to people though Facebook, Twitter, and text messages. Of course since we are all use to this idea, it doesn’t seem so strange that this happens so frequently. Though, when we actually take a step back, and we look at how we use to be before Apple became popular, it is so very strange that this is the new normal. “One major worry was that use of the Internet would prompt people to withdraw from social engagement and become isolated, depressed, and alienated” (Horrigan 1). Young adults that are so absorbed in technology complain that they are constantly depressed and often lonely; however, they barely ever apply themselves to life. When technology became popular it was supposed to better people’s lives and in ways, it has. Though, over the years, people have taken the use of technology for granted. If people aren’t hiding away in their homes updating Facebook and Twitter every five minutes, than they are out and about, knowing how to have fun, but for