Being Friendly

                This blog is about people being friendly. The question prompt is “Do you think people were nicer in the past rather than now? Explain why or why not.” I think that people shouldn’t be all grouped together as one. There are nicer people and there are people that aren’t as nice. The question isn’t really that good because obviously there are people that are nice as well as people that are not nice. It just depends on the person not on the time period they are from.

                In general though, I think people from the past might have been a little nicer. A lot of people would agree that nowadays we have access to too much technology and such so that we’re not as social, but rather spending more time on an iPad, or a laptop, or watching TV, or playing games on an x box or ps3. Back in the past, people had less of these and in result spent more time together doing things, rather than being indoors starting at a television screen, which at the time hadn’t even been invented.

                Another reason why people might have been friendlier in the past is that the community was closer, in smaller towns. Before cars were invented, people only had access to their direct town, which was probably small. Almost everywhere had to be within a walking distance. This kept the communities closer and more closely knit together. Once cars were invented, the distance of everything was more spread out, and people no longer had the small towns where all one’s friends would be within a five minute walk away. Another example would be the invention of the internet and online e-mail. Back in the day, people all wrote letters and had a mailman deliver them. The mailman got to meet a lot of people, and they were friendlier. Of course these new inventions were a good thing by making everything so much more convenient, but they also had some negative influences on society.

                I predict that a lot more new technology will be invented and it will just increase convenience for us so greatly, but human interactions may begin to get worse and worse. I may be wrong, but from I’ve analyzed from the past until now, I think this is a pretty accurate prediction. I mean this won’t be quick… it will take decades upon decades for all this new technology and the changing of human nature. It will not be fast at all, but it seems destined to happen eventually. We humans have advanced in many ways from bigger cities rather than small, invention of cars and e-mail and internet, and invention of gadgets that keep us preoccupied like iPads, iPods, cell phones, x-box, ps3, wii, computers, television, and all those things.

                So that’s what I think of the topic of whether or not people were nicer in the past than now. I think that people are just caused to be less social with all the new technology that has appeared. It’s through no fault of human kind, just that it’s a part of the way the world is changing. It’s the times going on. People aren’t really not as nice now, but that we are less social as before.