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Lazy technological people

Today my friends. haha, my friends? what the hell? As if anyone reads this blog. Anyway. TODAY I purchased credit for my mobile phone which has been credit less for about a week. During this time I have been going through credit less phone stress which is what happens when you can’t contact anyone because you can’t make calls because you are a broke bitch and have no money to pay for said calls. You get the point.

So being the “deep” thinker that I am, I began to think about what the world would be like without mobile phones, or rather what people were like before they were invented. Now, I should know such things, I was born in 1990… I don’t think 8-year-olds carried around blinged-out pink nokias back then. I only got my first phone when I was 14 so it hasn’t been that long, but you see my knowledge of what the world was like can only go so far as a child. I wasn’t thinking about stuff like that back then, I was concerning myself with what extra accessories my barbie doll could use.

Currently when I go through stages of being phone less I feel lost and disconnected with the world. Sad and pathetic, yet true. My phone has a calender with reminders of what I plan and such, it allows me to message people whenever I want to, wherever I am. So I was thinking, every time I make plans with someone, one of us usually ends up texting the other to find out where they are, how long they’ll be, etc. What did people do before mobile phones if they were running late for a meeting? Would you wait? how long would you wait for? What if something happened? When would you realise and leave? Or were people just a lot more punctual and efficient back then? Have mobile phones and our socially beneficial technology made us less efficient and lazier? Does it even matter? =/

Probably not. I guess it’s over thinkers like me that influence those crazy 6.30pm “news” segments. My bad.