Digitaldeminuendo

In the 21st century we are living in a world where are lives are consumed by digital screens. There everywhere, be it the phone in our hand, the TV in our living room, the laptop on our desks or the iPod in our pockets technology consumes our everyday lives. However, due to the increase of a digital world are we seeing a decrease of an interactive world? A world where two people would sit down look each other in the eye and have a conversation rather than keeping one eye on your phone and one eye on the person your talking to.




Although, you can use your phone to have a conversation with someone who isn't able to meet you, does it mean we turn to our phones to have a conversation rather than using them as an aid to meet someone in public? We should be using the phones to help us but in a world where everyone is so busy its difficult to find the time to meet up and see each other so do we turn to ours phones to make our lives easier rather than just using them as we're too lazy for actually meeting up in person.


Problem which does occur is double digitaldeminuendo, when someone is using a phone to contact you whilst paying their attention to another screen. We all I feel have witnessed this, when we are growing bored of a phone conversation so feel that instead of telling the recipient we are bored we turn our attention to other digital means. So is this pure rudeness or just general lack of not wanting to disappoint the person on the other end of the phone.


So, to conclude, digitaldeminuendo is a very real thing which our current generation seem to be suffering with. Be it the fact that there are just too many screens out there to steal out attention or its just become enriched in our culture to turn to a screen over human conversation. That's a thought to leave you with, next time your on the phone is someone paying attention to you or just saying hmm and yeah are they concentrating on another screen?