Technology Kinda Stinks

The other night my brother and I were sitting around and reminiscing about our childhoods. Things were so different when we were little, we were thinking about all the differences there are between us and our younger siblings. It made me think about what I used to do when I was little. I remember being a kid- I used to play those hand games and cats cradle. I would always have fun dressing up my Barbie dolls-mostly juss fixing their hair and trying to figure out why some of them had such small clothing. I also loved bead work and making bracelets and such, actually I still do make bracelets (it’s very relaxing and fun ). I realized that little girls, or juss kids in general, don’t really do things like this anymore. Hamdulillah my youngest brother doesn’t play video games, and we try to keep him away from them, but when I go outside I see how addicted kids are to games and stuff.

When I was little I used to carry around with me my string and stuff and I would work on my bracelets, now when I look around kids are all wired up- their i-pod in their ears and their DS in their hands. And don’t blame the kids. For example in my own personal experience I text message a little too much and when I go out sometimes I can be completely oblivious to what is going on and juss stand somewhere and continue to text-it’s pretty sad. My parents always ask me why I can’t simply pick up the phone and call my friends and call them, I really don’t know why, I guess texting is juss more convenient.

Technology is taking so much away from us, people would rather sit on their couches play the Wii and pretend that they are fishing instead of getting up and going outside and really go fishing. Technology is so advanced, I mean remember when the i-pod came out and we were juss like “WOW,” and then more and more versions came out and it juss got ridiculous. The other day I went to a Macy’s and there was an i-pod vending machine! Who thought of that?!? Today I don’t even use my i-pod anymore, all I do is put everything I want to listen to on a memory chip, put that in my phone, plug in the adapter to my phone and I can listen to it in my car or plug in my head phones.

I think that it’s so sad that girls don’t play with dolls, or make jewelry or any of the other things that I used to do, maybe technology is a little too much-or maybe I juss don’t like feeling old, who knows maybe both. But technology is making us a lot more isolated. I mean there are certain people that I only e-mail, or some people that I only IM, it’s a little sad how there are people that we talk to online but never make time to see them in person. Recently I’ve been looking for a job, and a couple of the places that I went to they gave me a website and told me to apply online and wait for an e-mail response, they said that they don’t even have interviews because there is a section online that takes cares of that!

But there are some benefits to technology, I mean SunniPath Q&A’s help us out, having newspapers online is convenient and free so there are also some bright sides to it.

Khayr I ramble too much.

Take care inshaAllah.

-radf

Allahumma sali ala sayyidina muhammadin an-Nabbiyil ummiyi Wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim.