Me and technologies for lack of a better name

Me and technologies, well I don’t even know where to start. Me and technologies have a very love hate relationship. I feel in general, technologies are the most useless, but also, the most useful stuff there is.  And I know that don’t make a lick of sense but I’ll explain what I mean. While technologies have been supposedly meant to bring us closer together I feel they have really made a lot of the world further apart. the spilt in groups on social medias are extremely bad, and they can be extremely ignorant and mean to one another. I know that there’s always been splits in demographics of people, but the splits have never been so aggressive in such numbers to one another with such ease to be aggressive and spread hate. Example that bullying is way worse now because of the ease of social media, that shouldn’t be happening on a thing that is meant to bring people “closer together”. Not only does it do that but it also makes face to face interactions seem less common. Peoples communication skills are beginning to lack in face to face situations, reading body posture and facial emotions and even looking into people’s eyes while talking are effected after long periods of use of communication being done on social medias. I also don’t see near as many kids out in groups walking down the road doing stuff outside, then when I was a kid and up to late middle school. Like me and the “bys” would be out doing “kid/early teenage” stuff all the time like riding a bike, walking to go hang out somewhere, playing burnt games like “red ass”. I believe it was called that anyways, the game consisted of finding a wall, having a tennis ball and 4+ people. The person would whip the tennis ball off the wall from like over 25 feet away and when it bounced back the two closest people too it would try to catch it, if it was caught, the person who threw it had to go up to the wall and risk getting hit with the ball, if it was dropped by someone who attempted to catch it, that person had to go up by the wall and the ball would be whipped at him (which wasn’t the nicest feeling in the back, when someone gets a good baseball pitch off) the only way no one went up to the wall was if it was a fumble and then it had to be thrown from wherever it was retrieved from, and if it didn’t hit the wall guess what, sucks to be you, your up to the wall again. Oh, man the welts from that game. The moral of this whole story is you can’t put the name of a game called “Red ass” in a story and not tell what it is, and also that kids now a day I feel don’t have these messed up kid memories. Outside of gym class I don’t see many people around my way doing activities anymore no matter how stupidly fun they are. Exactly how they bring us together is beyond me.  The technologies have brought us much closer together worldwide in accessibility, but also by doing that it has made the world seem smaller.  If I want to be in a Moscow Russia street view, I can go straight to google and see it from there, the adventure of seeing the world has completely been taking out by the world- wide web. I grew up also being told, don’t believe everything you read on the internet, that somewhere along the way lines changed. Now everyone believes everything they read when the content is all payed for, it is almost impossible to get an un-bias story, not filtered in some way. That’s my feeling of the world since the boom in technology anyways.  But mean while don’t get me wrong all these negatives have their positives to, like technologies allows you a much more variety of information and ways of getting information. It allows you to make tasks simpler and more efficient to do, in to confined little items. A piece of technology I love is my phone for the remuda app for my guitar amp it allows me access to a bunch of different amp sounds and filters stomps etc.  So, instead of having to buy a whole variety of different amps and pedals I just have it all on my phone.  To control my amp, I plug my chord into my actual amp and it changes it to that setting. My phone also allows me to get a hold of people when I need them or just talk or hang out. It allows me to schedule and so much more. But then here comes the love hate part I said earlier, most of the time its doing stupid shit that makes no sense like turning off for no reason, glitching out not responding and I’m all like “dude you’re a new phone what the F@#$” nothing that expensive and that “up to date” should work in such a shitty fashion. Example in the beginning of this term my S5 which held all my stuff for everything, just decided to update and die on me, it is to this day in a constant boot loop and wont stay on it makes no sense, nothing was ever done to it. It just decided its time was up and it wasn’t going to work no more. Which was great I lost a lot of slides I took pictures of, old photos and everything else on it. Then I got a tablet to replace the phone, it was fine for the first little bit but that tablet just hates me as well. It does its job on working but barely, its unreasonable “laggy” and constantly also doing stuff on its own, I got a keyboard for it because you know I figured it was better than the out of date computers, that we got, they are also extremely slow and “laggy” as well but about 10x worse.  I could just do work on the tablet, right? Was my original thought when I got it?  Nope turned out to be the answer, when I typed up half of one of my blogs with the combo of tablet and the keyboard I had bought for it, it decided to delete it all via backspace style so I couldn’t get nothing back.  I Learned then and there that it couldn’t be trusted for work and plus it was super bad at properly picking up my fast typing that I do in hard concentration.  On top of that, it never connected properly so I brought the keyboard back to the store and got my money back. I was planning on doing the same with my tablet because it kept getting worse but one day a couple weeks ago, I hauled it out of my pocket and it had a dirty crack across the screen, so that plan quickly foiled. Like for something that makes things “easier” it causes a lot of stress too, like when I’m working and the internet is deciding to cut on and off, or I’m playing a game and its doing it.  Like if it all worked properly the way its attended to work it’d be fine but I find that’s never the case with technology. Most peaceful time in my life has been without a phone for sure and I’d sure like to have a while away from all technologies’, I might appreciate them more, but currently I see a lot of big major problems that need to be fixed. The only thing I feel I’m truly addicted to with technology is the access to music. I’d seriously die with out my music and an acoustic guitar only goes so far. The problems I see in current technology is, some of it can be fixed and some of it is a hard thing to do like the bullying will never stop unless we start living in a perfect world, and the splits aren’t going to come together anytime soon, with more hate being spread around then love on social media (from what I see on it anyways) how is it. these things need to be used for what there attended for, bringing people closer together and making daily life less stressful and less difficult. If they do these seemingly simple aspects, they wouldn’t be a useless, useful object in my opinion. Like its very useful I can’t disagree with it, but with the current problems that arise around my time with technology and what I see with it, it got a lot of work still left to do in a lot of areas before I see it being solidly useful. And it honestly also needs to stop consuming the user’s life.  When you think about it, seriously how much time a day do you spend away from technology. Its truthfully not much time in the general aspect of things. Even when your driving there’s a radio, if your home watching something its a television or phone or computer. Even running, people use head phones so the activity you’d think takes the least technology there’s still some sort of it used. I’m going to try to have days where its living my life out side of technology like how humans originally lived like 100 years ago, just doing natural stuff. I feel the break is necessary cause with all this technology I feel we lose a bit of the soul inside, we don’t connect right to one another, and nature and the art to life are being ignored by so many. Life’s beautiful and I don’t need to see pictures or have some star/trend tell me that life is beautiful either.  To know that I can go outside the door and look at the views admire the smells and sounds and feel the realness, the sensation that is life and nature mixed all up in one.