Living Life Firsthand Research Paper

A recent study out of Baylor university is very intriguing and relevant to the growing problem of mindless media zombies. It’s called “Phubbing” and it happens when someone spends the whole night out with a date checking their phone. The research was done primarily on people on dates, but it works for just hanging out with friends as well. Baylor university concluded that this activity can actually cause depression in your friend or partner. Media revolutionized the world back at the creation of the internet, but in the past few years its use has become a huge problem. People are choosing to check their phones constantly instead of striking up conversations or exploring their surroundings. Living life to the fullest is everyone's goal, but how can we live life to the fullest with our heads stuck in our phones all day? ***As our use of the media grows, we grow farther apart from reality, and cease to experience life firsthand.
The road into media interaction is a slippery slope. First you’re just going on a networking site every few days to see what everyones up to, but before you know it you could be spending half your …show more content…
We notice it in our friends, family, in the fans of Truman and even in Mae. It seems like everyone is guilty of not living life firsthand. Some think this is just the way of the time, or is us evolving from talking to texting. But that can affect our society in a number of bad ways. When people don’t communicate in real life for a while, they can lose the conversation skill they once had, making conversations really hard. If everyone’s always staring at their phones are we really appreciating life? There’s a lot of cool things out there, but people are just looking at pictures as opposed to experiencing the real thing because it’s easier. Connecting to the media disconnects us from reality and that can hurt ourselves and our loved