The Beauty of Technology

I love iPhones. I love their ability to distract you from what ever you are doing without you even noticing. It all happens at the speed of light- first you hear the ping of a text message, you decide to quickly open the message, but now, since you already read the message you have to reply. Once your fingers are wrapped around the device, you begin to formulate and type your response...you realize it is imperative to find a witty gif to accompany your response. You scroll through Tumblr, Google images, and Twitter, and finally (in a perfect span of time- not too short ( or people will know you horde gifs) and not too long (so you don't seem like an inexperienced noob who can't find gifs)), you find a gif to send back. After you've sent your gif, you remember a funny account you passed by on Twitter, so you return to Twitter, find the account, and you start to scroll through their tweets. You tell yourself, "only 5 minutes", but then you refuse to exit out of Twitter because you have invested too much time on this account! All of a sudden, a Snapchat notification drops down from the top of your screen and its taunting you to click on it. You have to make the quick decision on whether or not to tap it before it disappears. You have made the decision. You open the snap, and in doing so, you have engaged yourself in hours of making ugly faces and creating snapchat masterpieces with the app's vast and varied color palette. You hear another ping, you glance up and you see a text from "❤︎ Mommy "... uh oh. Her text zaps you back into reality. You check the time on your phone and wonder where the four hours you were supposed to be spending on homework went. That's the beauty of technology.