Assignment 2- Kalin Combs

Assignment 2- Kalin Combs

How would your life have been different if you'd grown up 20 years earlier? How would you interact with others? Do you think your relationships then would differ from your present relationships? Which time period would you prefer and why?

I was born in 2000, after the invention of the TV, the laptop, and the cell phone. In 1980, the cell phone was just gaining popularity. My dad told me in the 1980s, growing up in Hazard, Kentucky, he only knew of a couple people in the whole city with cell phones. Clearly, that is a world that is hard for me to imagine. My parents had cell phones all my life and I got my first when I was 8 years old. I know my life would be extremely different if I grew up without one. I really don't love reading--I get bored too easily and I'm really a visual person, so I prefer using technology to reading words off a page. I know I was born in the right generation, I love technology too much to have grown up when my parents did. It's hard to say how technology may have impacted my relationships--whether I would be closer to my friends and family without the distraction of technology, or whether technology has actually brought us closer together through texting and social media.