Cell Phone Weigh Down Backpack Of Self Discovery Dalton Conley Analysis

In Dalton Conley “Cell Phone Weigh down Backpack of Self-Discovery” he writes about the usage of telephones and the social media make us less self-aware of who we are as a person because he thinks “…social wilderness has been eroded by omnipresent connectivity…” I have mixed feelings about this. While we should put down our phone every once in awhile, and just enjoy some peace, I don’t believe the cell phone itself drag us down. It’s an inanimate object; it doesn’t get up every morning slap itself on our hands as we make our way to work. Nor does it turn on by itself every time we have the urge to know what’s trending this coming fall. We make those decisions ourselves, we get up every morning not forgetting our cell phones, and we’re the ones that pick the settings of our phone, whether we want it on silent or vibrate.

With all the social media that we have today, the world has become a smaller place.

We are progressing in human communications, and slowly we become more globally aware. While I do agree with Dalton having a bit of private time with ourselves, “Time spent alone allows us to see ourselves as others see us.” I don’t believe that is the sole answer of self-discovery. We are social beings, being alone would make some people go mad. I think being in a wide range of social groups could also help us on finding ourselves. We have access to a great variety of things, and discover things that may spark an idea. For example, just this past week Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for making a clock because it looked like a bomb. This created a movement of people supporting Ahmed, and criticized how to school handled the situation. This led to him having numerous offers from schools, and even an invitation from the White

House.
Now I digress, sometimes there are things we are betting off not knowing, like our friend posting a status about going to the grocery store, or what kind of gum she just bought. Sometime we have to leave a bit of privacy off from the internet, but people just don’t know the difference. It may be because they just wanted to post it, we don’t know their reason. Just think about it for a moment, we have to physically move ourselves to make that update, or post that video. We are well aware of our conscious decision, sure their maybe some consequences of posting the things we have opinion on, but again as I said we well aware of the things we do. We can’t blame the things that we created for our own actions. As George Lucas said “The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.”