"Connor? Connor? Hello?" The words echo in the back of my mind, but don't quite penetrate deeply enough to sever my attention from the melodramatic status updates of my "friends" on Facebook. As my generation has slowly developed from naive children to naive children with bigger bodies and cars, a common theme has been the intrusion of the cellphone into constant, everyday life.

\On the train, in the bus, waiting in line, eating lunch, at every red-light, everyone is glued to their cellphones, appearing to be as crucial to survival as oxygen. Even in seemingly social interactions, like bowling or mini-put-put, everyone is checking their statuses, or taking an infamous 'selfie.'

Ironically, as we have become more connected to electronics, we've become more disconnected to each other. Face to face communication has been antiquated; if you wish to speak to someone you fancy, kid's first choice is to look them up on Facebook and start a cyber-conversation. In this way, they don't have to expose themselves and feel vulnerability; they can simply chat up a new friend without the fear of face-to-face rejection. Instead of calling up an old friend, send a two letter text message of greeting, hoping to spur an uninteresting and drab cyber-conversation.

The common courtesies of shaking a hand and simple eye-contact are simply unheard of from this generation of young-adults. We've been so thoroughly indoctrinated by electronics since we were young that it has become no longer a simply luxury, but a critical necessity.