technology can foster lives as if they were cocoons and became butterflies making them aware that they go out their with the ample amount of social skills provided for them. What if there was no technology, there has to be at least one thing that keeps you going through the day, for me it's my cell phone and without that communication to others would be gone and I'm sure that it is the same for a lot of other people. So technology is not always bad it can help our modern day society and our social skills in more way then one.

While technology has allowed us some means of social connection that would have never been possible before, and has allowed us to maintain long-distance friendships that would have otherwise probably fallen by the wayside, the fact remains that it is causing ourselves to spread ourselves too thin, as well as slowly ruining the quality of social interaction that we all need as human beings.

We strived to perfect our spelling in our early education, only to discover that portable spell checkers, autocorrect, and even phones speaking up to tell us when we make an error, have nearly eliminated the need for us to know anything about this. With any question, from movie times, to Washington's hometown, we dash to the computer or our phone to "Google it" instead of use our knowledge of alphabetical order to check the phonebook, or use our intelligence to sort through encyclopedia information.

While at first look it seems as though technology has provided an outlet for broader communication, all it has done is enabled us to ignore each other in favor of our simulated counterparts. We are clever and witty until you meet us, and then we become tongue-tied and awkward.