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Depending too much on technology will make you lose your friend
Since when? When we walk on the street or when we are at a restaurant and any other public places, we can always see someone walking or sitting alone with their technology, and somewhere at the restaurant groups are having lunch together but they are all focused on their smartphones and no one talks to each other. Anyway, this group made me feel that they will separate someday.
Yes, being too dependent on your technology will make you lose your friend! You will be facing your technology for the most time and ignore what your friend say to you and you have less time to interact with them. And little by little, they will start to get away from you, and someday when you find out that your need them, they are not next to you anymore.
Earlier, I found out that there are some restaurants in urban areas that don’t set up WiFi. The owner of the restaurant said that his purpose for that is to allow more communication between his customers. Normally, just as what I had mentioned earlier, group of friends eat together but what they do most are to play on their phone such as going on Facebook, photo taking and playing any other apps, which means that verbal communication between them is not much.
“We don’t have WiFi. Talk to the people around you! The farthest distance in the world is that I am next to you but you are playing on the phone!” This is the slogan that the restaurant had, so the owner of the restaurant believe that if the restaurant doesn’t provide WiFi, people will put down their phone and start to communicate with their friends.
As we can see above, friends are more important than technology! When you are having trouble, your friends try to help you solve it, not technology! When you are having a hard time, your friends are there leading you, not technology! When you are feeling unhappy, your friends are there to make you smile, not technology! So we can know that, “Friend is more important than technology!”
Zhijuan Huang
Lower Navy Hill, Saipan
