iWrite on my iPod

If I had grown up 20 years earlier, I would be a much different person in general. Nowadays technology controls EVERY aspect of our lives including our relationships with one another. Can you imagine a world without 'Twitter fights', or someone getting mad at you for not texting them back? Because of technology, we are now expected to do things that we were not 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago for some. 20 years ago relationships would have differed in that everyone would focus more on who they were with at the moment rather than who they were texting or talking to over a social network. Without these distractions, we would have been able to develope our relations better than we are now. Technology has also given many of us the need for attention and approval by all of our peers. It seems like many people are more interested in how many followers on Twitter or Instagram that they have than how many close friends are around them. I realize that I am completely bagging on technology and my logic sounds like that of an old geezer, but I would like to state that I think technology is a fantastic and necessary part of our lives. In fact, I am using my iPod Touch to write this blog right now (as evident in the title). If I were to be born in any time period I would chose the 70s. No this is not because of the hippie movement, but because it was a time untainted by the pressures of technology, this allowing me to at least get through school without the distraction. But it is a recent enough period to where I would be able to see and experience the development of the amazing technology that we have today.