After class on Wednesday I decided to sit downstairs by Einstein Bagels to observe some form of interpersonal communication that occured on campus. I sat at a table alone and began to scan the room, I was taken back by what I saw to say the least. I expected to see friends engaging in conversation or people studying together holding intellectually stimulating conversations. What I saw however was the complete opposite. 

I saw people with their heads buried in their phone, people doing assignments next to friends and not taking any breaks to speak, and people walking through with headphones isolating themselves from others. Then I began to think about my own tendencies and realized I was one of those robots going through their day with headphones in and phone in hand. This was eye opening for me because while observing everyone else I thought about how lonely and isolated they looked. After about ten minutes I heard some chatter and quickly turned to see who it was, it turned out to be two professors way older than me. 

My generation is so wrapped up in electronics and the social media cloud that conversation has dwindled and intellectually stimulating talks have nearly disappeared. The obsession with social media has completely taken over our lives. We constantly have the urge to send another snapchat or scroll through tik tok rather than getting work done, studying or hanging out with friends. However hanging out with friends nowadays mostly consists of sitting in a room sending tik toks back and forth and waiting for the giggle validating that it was indeed as funny as you thought. Typing that sentence was quite scary because it makes it a reality, how can two people call themselves friends when conversation between them does not exist.