When was the last time you received a letter from a friend in the mail? What, mail? Our lives have become so dependent on technology that we hardly even remember the way we used to communicate. It seems as though everyone has computers, and cell phones, and laptops, and PDA’s. Our lives have basically been handed over to computers. All of our personal information, phone numbers, medical records, taxes, social security, our money in the bank, everything is controlled by computers.

In 1929, when the stock market crashed, the country was in absolute turmoil. No one knew what had happened or where the money went, but today if something like that were to happen the world would probably stop turning.

Every where you go you see people talking on their cell phones, sending people text messages, taking pictures on their cells, people would be lost without cell phones, especially our generation, the students.

You know how you feel when you’re at school digging around in your backpack or purse and you grab your cell phone and you have no missed calls or text messages, and your feelings actually get hurt because you feel like no one loves you. Even though you just talked to some of your friends about thirty minutes earlier.

And we all know we sleep with our cell phones near us at night, in case we miss that important late night phone call. We have our cell phones with us at almost all times, at work as much as possible, at school, at home, while driving.

Many families have just gone to only having cell phones and not even having a house phone anymore, even eight and nine-year-olds have cell phones. Cellular telephones are by far the most used advanced technology, EVER! Now they have mp3 players, and video cameras, what’s next?

And everyone knows about the growing population of myspace.com, you get that same feeling. The one where you sign on to your account and you don’t have any comments or messages, you feel like no one loves you. It’s as though if we don’t have technological love, we aren’t happy.

As in a previous editorial and paper, you might now that at the beginning of the year we had a lot of problems with the server. If something can happen so horribly to just a high school newspaper, think about how that would affect ABC News or CBS; not only would we be without news, but without entertainment and communication.

People rely so heavily on technology that they don’t even realize it. Our grandparents, for the most part, have no idea how we understand these “gizmos and gadgets” that we use in our everyday lives. We use them so nonchalantly that we really don’t know either.

My grandmother just bought a laptop and she wanted me to teach her how to “surf the Internet” and get e-mail and such. So, while I was trying to show her how to use it, she was taking notes, pretty much word-for-word of what I was telling her.

Our minds work in such a different manner than our grandparents, they simply can’t keep up. And not to make fun of our elders and call them slow, but they weren’t exposed to this kind of technology when there brain was developing so to them its almost a new, and different language.

I guess it just amazes me at how dependent upon technology we have become, and how completely lost we would be without it, honestly.