The Importance Of Being Human

Being human, or being a Human Being, is exhilarating. Life is weird, fun and astronomically inclined to confuse us. Just as though this topic may confuse us, because we have been shaped by culture to believe that social media is just the “norm,” that we do not need a connection to survive our everyday lives; we only need Facebook to tell us what our latest enemy is up to, and maybe even check out our “friends” posts about their cats, or whatever they may speak about on their pages. But now that we have been told this is normal to do, we do it every day. For various reasons, but we still- almost every single one of us –participate in some form of social media usage during our days. As Anthony states in his article, “For the children of tomorrow, …show more content…
The iPhone 6, and its counterpart the iPhone 6 Plus, came out only a short while ago. Quickly these two phones have become far more popular than any other iPhone out there, but Samsung is right behind them with the Note 4. Progression is the key to their success, and moving speedily along this dangerous track is going to make us hit the wall harder than we will ever imagine. “Someday, they say, we may all become cyborgs. If this sounds ridiculous, consider what every day Americans take for granted: Lasik, heart machines, and cochlear implants, to name a few.” (Wilson, 2011) Call me crazy, but our thoughtless interactions with one another, and our willingness to buy a phone for five-hundred dollars brand new, is going more overboard than the statement of us becoming cyborgs. But as humans we could end up in a situation that is similar to being a cyborg. Our interest is easily sparked by social media; we see that with the iPhone 6 release. So how will this shape the way we perceive, what it means to be …show more content…
There are just some advances that are going to degrade us as humans. Working for social media should be interesting someday, but not understanding how it works will make it more difficult to work with. Trying to remember what you wore last Wednesday will be easier though, you can just check your cell phone for your “selfie,” and there you will find what you wore. Anything beyond what we have not stored into our devices though, that may be lost with time. Your friend Sally may be coming over today, but you are not going to discuss anything over a cup of coffee, you are going to text her the whole time; and then she will leave, without saying even one word out loud to you. (“Technology Is Destroying” Paragraph One) Our lives will be flipped upside down, and we will not realize it till we are there. Interactions would prevent this, but we have decided to eliminate those, so the result of every single one of these factors will be; how we perceive what it means to be human, this will be altered in a bleak