Alone Together

Today people can always be heard, can be wherever they want (virtually), and they never have to be alone. It is important for children to develope the capacity for solitude. People no longer know how to cope with being alone, they associate being alone with loneliness which are two different things. 

We are losing face with conversation; loss of eye contact. There's a desire to see to see who wants to reach us and to have a constant connection to everyone though use of a device. Leaving a phone out during a conversation can greatly change how involved the other person is making them feel like the person is waiting to be interrupted by their phone. "Conversation takes place in real time and you can't control what you're going to say" some teenagers don't like having face to face conversation because they feel less in control compared to text conversation where there's more time to think of their response. 

It is very important for children to learn how to be bored and alone without it being thought of a bad thing. We are in a time where being bored is no longer tolerated as refered in the video as the "boring bits". 

The video talks about creating device free places such as the kitchen, dining room, and car. Dinner with the family encourages good in a growing child. Being on a phone during this time takes you away from the dinner table. 

I think that if we stay on the same path that we are going then communication among humans with really suffer.