What is happening to society??

There was once a time when you entered a restaurant and people weren't on their phones the whole time, they actually had a conversation. Can you imagine? Eating and having an actual conversation. This must be a shock.

Now when you enter a restaurant it's like people are constantly on the phone. Looking at snapchat, twitter, instagram...etc. I mean don't get me wrong I love my social media but I do think that face to face interaciton is important as well. It's not just restaurants; people walk the streets looking down on their phones. It's like hello car coming! Is the Instagram post really worth risking your life? When you go out with friends you immediately have to take a picture and put it on snapchat because if not it never happened, am I right?

Last weekend I went to Sanibel Island, as I was there I made it a priority to not use my phone as much (not to mention the reception wasn't all that great either). I did use my phone to take pictures when necessary. But, since I didn't have my phone I did a lot of people watching, and it amazed me seeing all these people texting on their phone when there is this gorgeous view right in front of you! It makes you want to snatch their phones away and make them look at what their missing out on! Even when I went out to dinner there were little kids on their mini iPads, but then when you looked at the parents on their phones you understood the situation. I do understand though in some situations where you have to work while on vacation. But, it doesn't mean you work the whole time. If you are going to work, then you really shouldn't call it a vacation.

Here is my view from our hotel room in Sanibel:

My point is I wish people would take time to put their phones down and enjoy the world going on around them. Time flies by so fast and it would be terrible to look back on your life and wonder about they 'what if's'. What if you would put your phone down and enjoy the view? What if you would go on a date and actually interact with the person? What if you went a whole day without using social media?