We're losing the need to communicate

By Luke Moritz
The Collegian

It might just be a fad, or it might be something that is here for the long term, but there is a slightly disturbing trend in our society today. People are becoming less publicly social and more enveloped in their own little world while around others.

Sometimes I will see a friend walking past me heading to class and will either give him or her a little wave or head nod to say hi, but occasionally that person won’t even acknowledge me. I try to be as optimistic as possible, so I assume this cold treatment is not from something I have done, but rather because that person is engrossed with his or her own current activity.

So many people today have some kind of digital music player, especially those little white ones. If you walk anywhere on campus you are almost guaranteed to see at least one person with a pair of those white earbuds.

Not only do these people fail to notice their friends saying hi, but also they don’t get to hear the songs of the birds and other sounds around them.

This lack of socialization is adding to the individualism of our society.

If someone were to observe people in our society and see all these people walking around with electronic devices seemingly attached to their heads, they might think we have our brains wired to our computer system.

The fact is with all of the gadgets and electronic devices available to us we are more connected to our computers than ever before.

However, with all these electronics and gadgets we have the opportunity to be even more connected to each other.

Cell phones and wireless Internet are connecting us wherever we are and giving us more ways to communicate.

It might just be a different way of doing it, but people are still talking. Of course, that is just my opinion.

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