Texting in Public
Imagine yourself in a really crowded bus, full of strangers all around you, pushing you as they moving, touching you as they shift in their seats. In this situation, you take out your phone and start texting your friend about this very uncomfortable situation. The person next to you looks over at you, and makes a comment about the crowded situation and how they can’t wait to get off the bus. You smile at the comment and go back to your phone.
This is a very situational event, but it can happen to almost anyone. The issue to think about here is that you would rather text your friends rather than make conversation with the person next to you. Why is that? The reason for this may range from a variety of different reasons. What I believe the reason is security reasons. We listen to the news now and then and we always hear about the insecure times our world has fallen into. Murders, rapes, hacking, stolen identities, burglaries, and many other things now bring more and more fears about the strangers that live outside of our homes. The fears in our minds in our modern world is what prevents us from making friends simply by talking to a stranger next to us in a crowded situation.
In our modern times, however, we have an advantage: cell phones and other distractions. We are able to resort to these things because we feel more secure doing these than talking to a stranger. Our security and comfort level with modern technology prevents us from using simple forms of time-pass and communication: talking to someone next to us. Who knows, in the next ten years, texting on cell phones will be equivalent to looking over and talking to someone next to us and we will need to resort to other upcoming ways of comforting communications forms.
