Comments on: The “Please, Someone Notice Me!” Generation—More Thoughts

By: David

David — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:23:58 +0000

Again, though, it’s not the tech itself, but how it is used or abused. While the choices are sometimes made for us, only humans make choices.

But it leads to an interesting thought: How long until the choices made for us lead to do-or-die decisions on the part of Christians? At what point on this slippery slope do we cast aside our souls in our grab for the iPhone?

Whatever our view of industrialism, it was rooted in the desire for things of this world, not the one to come. The same can be said of our embrace of technology.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:57:46 +0000

I would have to agree with this comment. Tech does allow one to voice their opinions anonymously instead of what the Bible tells us, which is if you have a problem with someone you are to go to that person and work it out(paraphrased). Face to face. Online bullying is an ever growing problem. This is a con of social networking sites.

Adam

By: Travis Seitler

Travis Seitler — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:57:06 +0000

I think they’d say “eat what I give you or go to bed hungry.”

By: Don Fields

Don Fields — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:53:44 +0000

“Nothing we do replaces the face-to-face.”

Yep. But we all want to argue that technology has helped us communicate when we WON’T talk face-to-face. We CHOOSE NOT to have personal contact and then use our technological communication to assuage our conscience. Take away all the technology and what would we have left? Hardly any community and very little real, in-depth communication. Technology has helped us to have MORE SHALLOW communication and more surface relationships and LESS REAL communication and in-depth relationships.

I’m not blaming technology. But I am saying that our hunger for such technology and glee at having it available demonstrates the pervasiveness of the problem.