It might just be me, but I honestly feel like kids these days just don’t know how to talk to each other.

All these technological innovations are great to help people out, but we’re breeding a generation of people that just don’t know how to live. I walked through a store and saw a kid on a cell phone. Now when I say kid, I’m not talking kid like teenager, I’m talking they couldn’t be older than nine years old and they were chattin it up with a friend via text message. That just seems wrong to me.

I mean I didn’t get a cell phone when I was that young, if I wanted to talk to someone I had to call their house and then go over and talk to them in person because they’re parents needed the phone. No wonder people are getting depressed. No wonder the suicide rate is going up. People don’t see each other enough to know when something’s wrong. Before cell phones and facebook there was a thing called “hanging out.” people actually got to know each other and they could tell when their friends weren’t doing well. Cell phones just make it easier to hide that. There’s a problem with the world when kids are killing themselves because they think no one cares about them.

Put down your phone and look around. It’s time to look past the text message.