The ease of buying something has become a wonderful thing.  All you have to do is log into your favorite website, make your choice, put in your info and voila, a confirmation email is sent telling you that whatever you purchased is being processed and is on the way.  Wow!  How cool is that?  Very cool. You invite people over for a birthday party.  Excited, you go to the super market and get a bunch of food and drinks, then hit the dollar store for some incidentals, you plan and prep and move and situate, preparing for, what you hope to be, a great party.  Everyone shows up and everyone puts all the stuff they need to deal with where it goes.  Time to relax and enjoy the day.  Out come the phone’s.  Before you know it, everyone is taking up space, looking at their phone.  Look, I am all for technology, the more the merrier, there just needs to be some limits.  I guess parents these days are happy with the quiet, no trouble, they are there and I am here, kind of parenting.  Just because it is easy and accessible doesn’t mean it isn’t rude.  I think we need to take a close look at how we, a people, manage our use of technology.  Technology is extremely insensitive and very bland.  How you use it may not be, but it, in itself, is as cold as could be.  Try “people watching” it is a lot of fun and you just might catch the next viral video.  Catch is, you have to pay attention.   #lookingdownisthenewup #waitwhatjusthappened #nicetomeetyou