Friday's Experience

       Friday's not talking adventure was extremely hard. I struggled the most during lunch, my lunch table was extremely quiet because everyone was not able to talk. As I was sitting there, not talking, starring at each other awkwardly, I began to realize how important and necessary talking is to function properly and have a "normal" social life. Without talking life becomes suddenly and extremely boring, and trying to get your point acrossed is definitely more frustrating. In the same way Postman is trying to convey in the first chapter of his novel, Amusing Ourselves to Death, that our society is beginning to rely too heavily on the media as our medium and our way to communicate with other people instead of communicating with other actual human beings with words and emotions. Postman is correct in his belief that the world is too focused on striving for the new and cool way to communicate yet by creating these cool and instant ways of talking by texting, facebook, and email people are lacking in the experiences of a social life and talking to other people face to face to understand what they mean.