In my personal opinion, I feel as if technology is a huge distraction in today’s society. I agree with Mr. Stills wife. I cannot stand when I go to the movies and the person in front of me is on their phone. It is as if the big screen in front of them is not as important as the little screen in their hand. I think it is very rude, because everybody in the movie theatre paid money to go into the movie with full intentions of watching a movie with friends or whomever and instead is now being distracted by the person on the third row with their brightness all the way up. 

  I hate when I go to dinner with friends or family and they are constantly on their phones. It is one of my pet peeves. It is like people cannot get off their phones long enough to even hear how some one’s day went. I absolutely cannot stand it when I am telling someone a story and they are just staring at their phones the entire time. 

  Another big point into how technology is a big distraction is that people cannot even stay off their phones long enough to drive from point a to point b. About 2 months ago I was driving on the outskirts of Huntsville headed home for the weekend when the guy behind me rear ended me because he was on his phone and he hit me so hard it caused me to hit the car in front of me. The guy behind me did not care how endangered his and many other lives were. All he cared about was that funny meme on Facebook, or how he had to reply to his group message. I had whiplash and a concussion and couldn’t even get out of bed for over a week. I was thankful that that is all that happened to me but it could have been a lot worse, but it is the fact that his phone could not wait until he got where he was going. 

Texting and driving is a huge problem in our generation. I think everyone is guilty of it at some point, whether you are at a red light, a stop sign or just stuck in traffic most people have at least done it at some point or are going to do it at some point. My point of this is that our cell phones and technology have taken over a huge part of our lives so much that we cannot even put them down while we are driving.