A Day without Technology... O.M.G.

I'm sorry, but this article "A Day Without Media" (http://withoutmedia.wordpress.com/) is a big pile of stinking horse poop. Are these students serious? They felt "secluded," like they were on a "deserted island," and they felt the "physical" effects of being without technology? Wow, these students need to get a life, like a real life. I love technology and I use it everyday. I do find a lot of my school work depends on the media (hence this blog...), but c'mon people, is your physical body really going to suffer without checking your god forsaken email or Facebook for one day? That sickens me.

My phone dies on me, OFTEN. And when it does, guess what I do? I don't care. The ONLY thing that I think of when my phone dies is what will I do in an emergency (i.e., needing to call 911). Not how am I going to call so-and-so about plans tonight. I check my Facebook almost every day (I even checked it right before I wrote this blog), but if someone came up and told me I couldn't check my Facebook for 24 hours or it was my life, shoot, take my Facebook from me any day. All of that drama or "interesting" facts that people post on Facebook will still be there tomorrow. Don't worry.

I'm not even going to take this challenge of not using technology for 24 hours. It's not worth my time because I need access to certain items on my school's library website that I can't find in the physical library. If I didn't access those resources online then I wouldn't be able to do my school work...and it's finals week. But if those materials weren't online then I bet I know where they would be! Most likely in the physical library (otherwise they wouldn't exist). And also, I'm not taking the challenge because I know that I would be perfectly fine without technology if I really had to do it. If I didn't have school assignments due (that were submitted online - again this blog) then there would be no need for the computer or internet. Plus, I go without my phone all the time and guess what?!

I'm still alive. *Gasp* I know, shocking.

The reason why older generations frown upon technology is because of ridiculous students like the one in that article. They make the rest of us students sound like mindless, ignorant, incapable people. I hate that I'm seen that way, especially since I am NO WAY comparable to those students who are dying because they can't check their email.