T R I G G E R E D

Welcome to the digital age, where screens and computers capture the souls of the youth. The year is 2016, and newspapers are read through a small portable communication device.  This small device is not made of cocaine, but you would surely believe it when witnessing the youth of today continuously accessing their pockets for this tiny object.

Most sources these days paint this addiction in a negative light (Factual proof backing phone addiction), well I am here to tell you that peeping that phone for the apps and social media updates is good for the mind and the soul.  All this talk about phone addiction and how it is ruining people has me TRIGGERED.

The phones in our pockets are part of the greatest advancements in human technology. Addiction dot com (Yeah I did write it that way, so what? Wanna fight about it?) says, "Since technology addiction has yet to be classified as an official mental health condition and is largely used as an umbrella term to describe a variety of obsessive or compulsive online behaviors, what causes someone to develop this addiction isn’t very well understood." (Facts B) It isn't even an official mental health condition! So why is everyone becoming so triggered over the fact that I check my phone 143 times a day, or scroll social media till my brain is mush. 

Addiction is a common everyday occurrence.  People, back when Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1932, read newspapers.  Everyone would read the newspaper on the daily commute.  Hmm I wonder if there are similar parallels today? Oh right, everyone on their phone.  Boom lawyered.  Phones and social media are key to the improved interconnectivity of the entire world.  How is this not a good thing? I am able to stay in contact with hundreds of individuals without even knowing them.  I could have a best friend from Sweden, and never even meant the person.  I don't remember hearing about how the Spanish Inquisition solved that problem?! Nope, it's all through improved technology.

So many helicopter parents worry that a laptop is going to destroy their child.  Well believe it or not, the tire swing outside is more likely to hurt me than the dang noobs on Counter Strike telling me to rush B. Welcome to the digital age plebs.  Technology is a tool, and why wouldn't we want an individual to master a tool?  I disagree completely with Bianca Bosker in the linked article above.  Phones, social media, technology as a whole should not be used in moderation.  We should dive fully into these addictions, see what becomes of them.  The outcomes of our indulgence could lead to amazing things.  The past 100 years we have progressed more than the past 10,000 years.  Amazing is just around the corner, so why apply limitations.  Do not be triggered, like I have, by everyone else assumptions that technology and phones are negative aspects of our lives. Send it for the boys!