technology and social media sites. the new addiction?

this post was inspired on and article i read today on the newspaper, we live in a world thats in constant movement and change where sometimes we dont pay much attention to some things that can be influential and important someday.

one of these things is how more and more each day we have become more dependent on technology, though it can help sometimes there are things only a person can do nonrelated to that but just as important i grew up in a medium that until the late 90s was largely devoid of technology in this case computers and cellphones.

who would have known that a few years later they have become part of our culture and our mode of interacting with others, i still remember when telegrams and handwritten letters were still used im guessing there are still some people who still do the second thing mentioned because its more personal a handwritten letter than and email thats true.

so why the title of the post well theres a new addiction that its now being actknowledged and that its addiction to technology, whether it be cellphones, social media sites, videogames mainly supposedly these were created to entertain people and for shortening distances between people. the thing is sometimes this could be more bad than good cases where teens spend half the day chatting on a social media site mainly facebook or are glued to their blackberry screen talking with their peers not paying attention to the world around them.

some people can become isolated and avoid any social interaction that doesnt have as a sort of medium the internet, its a bit scary when you hear cases were addiction to technology ends up in violence specially if its related to videogames but i never like to put everyone in the same category but that doesnt mean that it couldnt happen.

for anyone who reads this, whats your take on this. do you think social interaction is becoming less frequent because of the internet and when i mean that im talking about talking directly to a person instead of doing it through a computer.

the little things in the road.

so ive been thinking throughout our life we meet a lot of different people, sometimes do a lot of different activities among other things, there are small moments in life some remember more than others these happen because of the little things in the road something as simple as reading a good book or just laying in the grass among other moments that why exactly am i mentioning this the answer is simple ive been remembering them. 

i still remember when i climbed a lot of stairs in a small town called salento in a department of my country colombia and at the top there was a natural viewpoint, though i ended a bit tired it was worth it to see the scenery from up there one of the few moments  i remember that still make me smile and think from time to time.

there are people that can have a repetitive speech if its mentioned more than one time and its about the same subject over and over again, so a few words a relative told me recently made me reflect on something; do we plan our life since we are little some admit to doing this but not everyone does this i admit i didnt since there are many twists and turns along the way that admittedly one wouldnt know where the road will end.

i may continue this in another entry.