These days, anything that has to do with social media is controlling our lives. People are constantly on Instagram, Twitter. YouTube, Facebook, and anything else that includes the Internet and not “real” people. Even when they talk to someone it’s usually just through texting or maybe a phone call. Everywhere you look, there are people just sitting on their phones instead of communicating with other people. I think we should put down the technology every once in a while, have a conversation and actually hang out and do fun things with our family and friends.

I’m sure we can all see that adults like to say things like teenagers are always on their phones or that teenagers need to have a real conversation with people in person. In reality, I probably see just as many adults consumed in their phones and ignoring the world around them as I do teenagers. We can’t just blame all the young people for the lack of face-to-face communication.

There are people of all ages everywhere that you’ll see sitting next to someone and just basically being hypnotized by their devices. They could be sitting next to them for hours and not say a word or even glance at them. People like to live their lives through their phones and computers instead of living their real lives. If you would just look up once in a while, you could see how many great things the world has to offer. You could also so meet so many great people and have a great (real) life.