I have read some really tragic stories over the last few days. The two that caught my attention the most are two articles that ended in death involving cell phones. In one story a man jumped into an icy river in Chicago to go after his smartphone. His friends who were with him followed in after him. One man and One woman trying to save their friend from going after his phone. The woman is missing presumed drowned, and the other is in critical condition from report I read on here. The next story which can be read clicking here. It was between two men in a theater and texting during the trailers. There was a verbal altercation that ended in one man being shot and killed, and another being injured.
So here's the question: What the hell happened to people and their phones?
In one instance let the phone float away, and in the other, someone text messaging during the trailers doesn't mean kill anyone (The man who was shot, his son was just two seats away.) over it. Also what's so important that you can't shut your phone off and watch a movie. Sit down, be at the theater with your family, and enjoy the show. That is what you came there to do right? Then again it happened in Florida, you don't have to hold much in that state to get shot. I digress, The actions by these people over someone using their phones and what they escalated too is simply mind-boggling.
Selfies, foodies, snapchats, and instagrams are fun ways to use our phones. However do we spend to much time capturing moments with our phone than being apart of them? Here's a video I watched via Upworthy.com. I would check them out, they find videos that challenge the way we think, and sometimes just uplift you. Directed by Miles Crawford and Written by Charlene deGuzman and Miles Crawford.
Phones now have speech functions that make it seem like you are carrying on a conversation. You what carries a conversation well, a person. Breathing human beings, in my opinion people see it as social acceptance. Playing games, showing pictures of nights before. It's a great tool, don't get me wrong, but at the end of the day it's just that. A tool. Nothing more. Maybe people should try this game more:
It's a thought, because do we really want a track worthy statistic of people dying from cell-phone related incidents like the two above? What the hell happen to People and their cell phones? #WeLostConnection.
