Home phone to cell phone

It is 3:15; you know what that means. The school day is over, and after seven hours of learning you are ready to go home and maybe hang out with your friends. Surely everyone will see how close you are through all your social media posts. Social media has not been around forever, and teenagers have not always had their phone to contact their friends. There had to be other ways people used to keep in contact, right?

“We’d call the house phone and make plans. After school, we’d all pile up in one car and hang out or go to work together,” said Tabitha Roper, English teacher and 2006 high school graduate.

Does your house have a home phone? Maybe with all the different mobile devices we no longer feel the need for it. It used be all students had. In the late 70s to early 80s students would participate in sports at school and activities with friends. Now we solely rely on our cell phones to make plans with friends and post our adventures all over the internet.

“I would not want to be a high schooler with all of the social media that we have now,” said Roper.

Social media seems to be the main focus for all the teens now. Upload a picture, and see how many likes you can get. Sometimes it can lead to cyber-bullying, which was never a problem when there was no social media. Bullying was always a problem, but it used to be face-to-face. Now you can easily hide behind a screen and face no consequences.

Maybe the times we live in now are not all sunshine and rainbows. Time to face the truth, sometimes the past had it better. So how about trying to hang out with your friends without focusing on technology?  Now that is a novel idea.