I am at the YMCA and I walk down the hallway and there are groups of teens sitting on benches texting and talking and taking selfies. Nobody is talking. Nobody is exercising.
I go to the local high school and in the cafeteria as students texting, sharing videos, playing games and updating their social media. The day after I was there, a local scandal broke that some of the kids were sexting and passing around a naked freshman girl's picture. What are they learning? How to avoid getting caught (by using Snapchat or deleting their history). They consider their phones a right and not a privilege.
I met a friend last week for lunch, he tells me that at his workplace that they installed web monitoring software to watch the employees internet use. Seems some people are going places they shouldn't- shopping, social media, even porn sites- and it is having a noticeable effect on productivity. So people are bringing their personal cell phones and tablets to work and end-running the web blocking.
This is what happens when technology out-paces our personal integrity.
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