I have recently realized that there is a large amount of my time spent online. It seems to be the trend of the world. Instead of calling a friend or stopping by I like their status on Facebook or follow their Twitter-feed to find out how their day went. I haven't really made an effort to make new friends because I already have over 600 FB friends and because there are so many of them I can't keep up with all of their posts, and I don't even notice if a few of them "un-friend" me because the number is ridiculously high. I stumbled across an article on one of the 6 "social" network sites that I am a member of that struck a chord: Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
I was at the mall over the weekend and saw preteens, elementary age kids and teenagers all at the mall roaming around in small groups texting each other and discussing trivial he said/she said or pop-culture. Do kids play outdoors anymore? Do they know how to have an imagination outside of the popular video games, TV shows and even popular children/young adult literature? I worry for the next generation of children and how they will learn to experience the world around them without a device attached to it. Even now I'm nearly inseparable from my smart phone, but at least I played in the desert, rode my bicycle, played on a jungle gym and skinned my knees. I'm not interested in sports or athletics but I still had an active childhood, nowadays if a child isn't interested in sports they spend most of their time indoors with their computers, game consoles or the newest electronic gadget.
My goal in life is to provide my children with a similar childhood to the one I had one with plenty of sunshine and fresh air.
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