Ok... so this topic is not only a matter of just informing or entertaining you, the Blog reader, but this is a personal dilemma of mine. I, probably like the other great numbers of Americans, am dependent solely on texting on a cell phone to people. I cannot stress how addicted I am to texting, hell I have scared away many people BECAUSE of this problem. I can count at least 3 or 4 people that I constantly have "creeped out" because of my problem. You would think I would have learned my lesson... well you'd be wrong to say so because no matter how much I try, the urge to text someone, ANYONE, just eats my heart out. My problem has resulted in so much anxiety and depression just because I can't text someone I know due to events in my, or their, lives. It is just such a problem for me to separate myself from my damn phone, and now I fear I may keep scaring potential friends, or significant others, away from me, even now I fear it.
My experience is not just affiliated with me, I know that many other Americans are afflicted with a condition such as my own and are in a similar predicament such as myself. But does that mean this condition is to be blamed on the technology that it was designed for? The answer is "No" because to simply put, it is the mind of the wielder of a cell phone that determines whether or not he/she can contract said condition. I, for example, have never grown up with a way to communicate with people whom I know until I got my phone almost 3 years ago, since then I just haven't been able to come to terms with this, for a lack of words, "addiction". I guess what I can say about this predicament and the danger of text addiction is that technology was not meant for enjoyment or convenience, it was meant for a more important purpose and to be consumed by it and become hooked to it is not it's purpose.
-AC
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