The Quintessential 21st Century American

I feel that the average 21st century American can be called technology addicts. We have become dependent on technology for almost everything. Instead of going out to see our friends and family, we call them or go online. Almost everyone carries a cell phone. Most people have a computer, with internet access, either at home or a laptop that is carried with them. These devices tend to limit the amount of face to face interactions. We can even attend college via the internet and never even see the teacher.We used to have to learn how to write a sentence, using correct punctuation and grammar; in today's world we have word processing programs that tell us when we have a sentence fragment or something similar. Spelling is corrected automatically or with spell check. I myself am guilty of doing this; I am not a very proficient speller and use the spell check quite often. Our youth spend more time playing video games and texting then they do with their families. There is an epidemic of obesity in the children of today's society, a lot of which is due to the reliance of electronic devices to be babysitters.