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I’m driving to lunch today, and I hear a statistic on the radio that makes me nearly wreck my car. 53% of young people would give up their sense of smell rather than give up their technological connection.
When I got back to the office I had to immediately look up this article. Yep, there it was. You can read the article here if you want, but I will sum it up for you too. America’s youth has lost their minds!! Okay, that wasn’t a good summary, but I am getting there. What’s worse, is the ages that they are using to define America’s Youth hardly contains me anymore!! (Different subject entirely).
The study done by McCann Worldgroup involving 7,000 people between 16-30 states that 53% would give up their sense of smell to stay connected. They go on to compare technology to an additional sensory organ…. and being without it like being blind without a stick.
Huh?
People come on! Think of who it is that we’re staying connected too… most of your “friends” are your ACTUAL friends…. you’re not losing them… you have to GO SEE them… you’d give up SMELL for this? Think for a moment of standing near the ocean, in a bakery, a country road, holding a baby, cologne remnants on your partner at the end of a day, steak on the grill…. I’d chunk my MAC and Blackberry right out the window. Never looking back.
Sources for my article: BizReport, May 26, 2011… Helen Leggatt.
Xanax or Running Shoes? 
yeah its called “Laxy Glue”. that is just ludicrous. get off your lazy butts and drive around or pick up the ancient thing called a telephone. I’m with you I get rid of Mac and Blackberry before i lost any of the real senses.
P.S. I guess you are still considered “Todays Young People”
yea, it kinda freaks me out that they would consider injury to themselves before they’d trash their cell phone…. for the love of PETE!
hey now, i wouldnt necessarily give those things up. i have to say there are smells and tastes that to this day bring about such euphoria that there is nothing in the world i would ever trade for them. i have strong memories tied to smells so small and fleeting that i yearn secretly in some stored away part of my brain for the day that i might smell them again. i love technology and to a large degree it IS another sensory organ, but not one that you cant live without. americans are in the habit of thinking convenience is a sense.. but sadly its not it’s a luxury, and one that we have for far too long been afforded.
Ahh, there’s my brother I remember dearly. Well put…. so well put!
I say, there really should be a Technology Abuser Anonymous.
“Hi, my name is [insert name] and I am addicted to technology. Ever since I started abusing technology I’ve stopped going out with a notebook and pen and enjoying a breath of fresh air. My children neglect me and my wife hates me.”
Just kidding. Tee-hee.