The Pointlessness Of Unplugging Article Analysis

In the article entitled “The Pointlessness of Unplugging,” Casey N. Cep disputes the Impracticality of “unplugging” from technology, using “the fifth annual National Day of Unplugging,” as the focal point of his argument. Cep begins by analyzing a website that participant’s submitted photos to of themselves holding signs with explanations of why they chose to unplug. Ceps continues by saying “How quickly the digital age turned into the age of technological anxiety” (Cep, 2014, para. 3). Which tells the reader his opinion that everyone has become so anxious because of the pace technology has progressed. He then states statistics backing his opinions on why he believes the idea that online connections aren’t authentic is false. The author then …show more content…
I’ve had a similar ideology on the subject and reading that I wasn’t the only one who believed in this concept was astonishing. I immeasurably related to the story about his grandmother. I too had a similar situation. In the summer of 2012, I was on an island off the coast of South Carolina for a week-long vacation where I had absolutely no cellphone signal, no Wi-Fi, or really any technology at all. Although I enjoyed my stay I could not help but wonder what the outside world was doing, and for good reason. When I made it back to the civilization and got my first bar of signal on my phone, notifications started blowing up my phone, most were basic cookie cutter text messages asking about my vacation, until I started to reach messages, expressing concern like “So sorry for your loss” and “My prayers are with you.” My heart sunk reading these vague message. I frantically started searching for my Facebook application on my phone’s still sandy screen to see if I could investigate who I may have lost or if it could be a prank. I opened up the app and found my childhood friend had died around the day I lost signal. It wasn’t only devastating for me but also frustrating! I missed such an important thing because of the lack of technology I …show more content…
The teenagers may have social anxiety and the only way they can escape the depression is to flee to their phones or maybe, the “murderer” was suffering severe depression due to being abused throughout their childhood and they just so happened to play video games like millions of people do every day and don’t go out killing people. This misinformation is shoved down our throats on a daily basis is the cause of “technological” fear and at the momentum new technology is produced it’s easy to point the finger at what all humans fear; the