Prompt 15

Can You Hear Me Now?

Twenty years ago we were in the 80’s. Before I was born, both my parent were still young adults and the world was nothing like it is today. Among the drastic changes in the way we dress, the music we listen to, the way we talk etc., from the 80’s to now we have changed radically in how we communicate.

From big blocky 1hr battery life phones, to pagers, to two-ways, to smaller more convenient ones that really couldn’t do much, to what we have now. It is amazing that what once was the size of a small book and didn’t really do much, now can be as small as the palm of your hand and do pretty much everything a full blown computer can. With this advance in the way we can communicate there has been a change in the way we communicate. What I mean by this is back in the day there weren’t very many ways to keep in touch, other than by phone call, letter or in person. Yeah online was an option but it wasn’t as advanced as it is today. Now we are literally a click away from anyone in the world. If I want to talk to my friend on the other side of the world, all I need to do is press and hold C on my cell-phone. Another thing we can do in 2010 that we couldn’t do in 1980 is text! I text so much that it has become the main source of how commune with basically everyone in my life. I can count the times I am actually on the phone in one month, but when it comes to texting I can literally send dozens of messages a day. Another form of communication that is rampantly growing are sites known as social networks, recently most popular being Facebook and Twitter. I think if Facebook keeps going like it’s going, in a few years more than half the population will be “connected”. No where else in the history of the world has the entire human population been so close to almost all being together like that.