The igen

I thought I was a tech head or perhaps a facebook addict. But after 4 days here in the Philippines, I can honestly say that I am far from it. Since I have been here, I have seen a 2 year old play temple run (a very stupid game) on her brothers Samsung tablet that he uses for school; as well as all my nieces and nephews just sitting on the couch right next to each other with their own up to date high tech smart phone glued to their hands.

The concern that not only is it slightly frustrating to have a conversation with them but that its more frustrating and sad to see that kids are no longer playing with each other in each others presence, or running around screaming and laughing, making up silly games. The closest they get to engaging with one another is when they are sitting on the couch next to each other both overlooking a laptop or playing a versus match against one another the wii.

I also get it that here in the Phils its a part of the boredom factor, but is it not the responsibility of the parents to ensure that the children are engaged in PHYSICAL activity? not at all times, but WHY-O-WHY do they have to have phones with friggen 24 hour access to facebook. Who cares what your friends status is or what they are doing every minute...I'm guessing they are also driving their parents mad while sitting on their couch doing the same thing?

I may sound fairly judgemental in saying this, but the fact of the matter is that social media as it may be referred to has also had the reverse impact on this igen.

While for instance people like me use it for business or to share photos with friends and family while traveling. It seems that this is the pure source of communication for children here in the Philippines and probably everywhere...if this is how they are at such an early age...the idea of close connections and relationships will be as artificial as cyber reality.

Considering the evolution we have made as a race, why is it that we work so hard to improve communication and then being of the intelligence that we are it ends up that we become more disconnected...is that not un-intelligence!

Go fuck yourself technology! as I sign off on my blog that I access over high speed Internet....the oxymoron is that technological advancement is pleasure and pain all rolled into one!