I've personally always loved the phrase coined by Stephanie Tanner on Full House. "How Rude" certainly extends to most of society today.

For instance, a coworker I have seems to think she is my boss, althought we're on the same level. She tells me "hey go get this" or "hey go do that." For a while, I just went ahead and did it, but now it's gotten to the point where I'm tired of it. She told me to go get her something while we were standing next to each other and I said "I'm sorry, I'm busy. You'll have to go get it yourself if you want it." 

This doesn't just extend to coworkers, though. I've held open the door for people at stores and don't get a thank you. My dad used to scream after people "You're Welcome!" to make them embarrased after he held the door open for them. Personally, I don't blame him for that. 

It seems our society has forgotten a few things. A) If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. B) Treat others the way you want to be treated. C) "Please" and "Thank You" are the magic words. It isn't too hard to be nice to everyone. Try it sometime.

Written by Sherriz on 11th Feb

It’s strange to think that the technology we have now would not have existed just a few years ago, and will probably be outdated within the next few too. It is said that the technology and power held within our smart phones today matches that used in Apollo to send the first man to the moon, scary right? Technology has advanced more than anyone could have imagined a few years ago and will continue to do so, but, is it scarier than we think when we see the bigger picture?

Tearing you away? Today, parents all over the world are under pressure from current society to buy themselves, and their children, the latest gadgets, clothes and more.  This pressure is most felt of course in low-income households, particularly around the festive season. Technology provides a string of communication between each other which can often lead to the good, the bad and even the ugly. By bad, I aren’t referring to small petty arguments that people may have but more to bigger issues, such as the underlying trouble behind the English riots a few months ago. This saw children as young as 11 looting after texting/calling one another with their plans and so called aims.

In the past, when technology was non-existent or just being introduced, families would spend almost all of their time together. However, in the present day, this is not the case. This is partly due to long working hours on the parent’s behalf but also, technology. As my grandparents may say “The devil of timewasting!”. It’s not hard to walk through a busy town to see people with earphones in their ears, or their fingers darting around a screen or keypad. There is almost, an unannounced competition between citizens to have the best, more recent, stylish technology out there. Going through an average school and asking a class of students you would be able to see, from the small minority, which the most popular brands of phones and gadgets are. As a younger child, my first phone was a basic Nokia, as we would now call it “a brick” but now, the younger generations are being introduced into technology a lot faster getting more advanced phones and gadgets then we could have dreamed of a few years ago.

Technology presents a fear to people of all generations.  We seem to think that if we don’t use our technology, we will be left behind in a whirl of developments. A prime example of technology advances is mobile phones. The very first mobile phone (known as a portable phone back then) for the general public was produced in 1985 by Vodaphone. Since then more and more developments have been made and the market has grown to be one of the most competitive. You can think of this as a tree. The very first phone, was a seed planted in the soil. Over time, that tree has grown with more and more branches growing off it, competing for the sunlight, or in the case of technology, the limelight. Much like animals adapt to a habitat, we have adapted to technology. Most of us today could pick up a brand new mobile phone and be able to use it without taking a glance at the instruction booklet purely because, we can!

Some would say that the internet is the greatest advance in technology. Today, right this very second, you are sat there, staring at a computer screen after searching HabbCrazy into a search engine. An individual can do anything, find out anything over the internet. Can it get much better than this?

Looking into the future, we all have these slightly bizarre ideas, hover crafts, non-physical money. But will any of that become a reality? Truth is, most of it is already here and we just don’t see that. Credit cards are the ultimate form of non-physical money at present time. A person can receive a pay package and not even see it; it would be placed straight into an account.  

What do you think about the future? Will we all be traveling around on jet packs in outer space purely because technology lets us?

This has been -Ellie,! pondering over a discussion between family at breakfast.

Written by -Ellie,! on 26th Dec