tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640230194403714897.post6809958912740792062..comments2023-11-03T06:39:40.819-07:00Comments on Thinking Outside the Blog: Cell Phones: The Enemy of Self DevelopmentLouis Lapideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04937345918099904842noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640230194403714897.post-45075672970656054782008-04-21T11:47:00.000-07:002008-04-21T11:47:00.000-07:00Jenn: thanks for your comment. You made some exce...Jenn: thanks for your comment. You made some excellent points. I still think multi-tasking conversations takes away from the intimacy of a face-to-face conversation. We lose out on reading each other's body language, eye contact and facial; expressions when making significant statements. One statistic i read says 30% of people who break up with a significant other do it over the cell phone. What's up with that? In a face-to-face you have a better opportunity to see how your words affect another; you can observe how you as a person are affecting another wherein is self development. I refuse to discuss important, deep issues over a cell phone. It takes away something from our humanity. Cell phones interference with spending time with one another as we are always getting calls, or wondering who's calling even if we don't pick it up. I am not speaking about development regarding global connections and discovering the world around us. I am speaking about staying in touch with the world within us. I remain confident that the Clueless referral, though a brief moment in a film, depicted something that has gone amuck with our high-tech society. I have a better way to stay in touch with our world: try reading and traveling. It's much more effective than speaking to a faceless voice in Singapore. Regardless, I loved what you had to say. I think we both make good points.Louis Lapideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04937345918099904842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640230194403714897.post-47134988569847524042008-04-19T11:43:00.000-07:002008-04-19T11:43:00.000-07:00Technology (Cell phones) is the enemy of self deve...Technology (Cell phones) is the enemy of self development?? I find this one hard to agree with! The cancer thing- yes. Pacifier analogy? Absolutely! But harmful to our self development? <BR/><BR/>If you probably hadnt noticed, I am quite into my own self development and at the same time I am a cell phone addict. I have been connected for the last 14 years since I got my first email address. If I didnt have the instant (and long reaching) form of commuication this generation provides I would have merely become a product of my environment-a small town in South Carolina. <BR/><BR/>Thanks to the internet I learned about life in Singapore, South Africa and Germany from teens my age. Thanks to cell phones I can travel to different environments while maintaining a grounded connection to my own upbringings (family).. <BR/><BR/>Cell phones and these other forms of impersonal communication make it possible for us to have a global society that learns from each other through interaction not possible face to face. <BR/><BR/>Unless you are suggesting that self development can only be done in the confines of your immediate location .. I dont see how you can put our lost of self entirely on cell phones<BR/><BR/>And to people who prefer a cell phone conversation over a personal one.... well there are possibly deeper issues there. Nothing can replace true interaction. Yes they constantly talked on cell phones in clueless... but they hung up the cell phones and talked to each other when they were out of school. They are not on a cell phone the whole movie-- geez!<BR/><BR/>But I ramble.. when I write, in person, and on the cell phone.I am Jennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862331250237998253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640230194403714897.post-46318815175170397782008-04-19T04:28:00.000-07:002008-04-19T04:28:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14737582471767623477noreply@blogger.com