Savor the Trip, Don't Tweet it - Blog 5

       Elliots concern is people have the tendency to travel and not be able to get the full experience. Rather then viewing the world through their own two eyes people are caught up with looking through a camera lense or writing and bragging about it all over facebook. The role technology will have when I travel to australia and new zealand is hardly any. I do not want my experience to be taken up by being caught up with facebook. In my opinion, Facebook is used for people to be caught up in everyone else's drama rather then their own. On my trip I shouldn't have to worry about the lives of other people I should be embracing the beauty of the new countries that I'm visiting. A qoute that I think should get recognition is "Instead of having the experience, you are now observing yourself having the experience. It's a layer removed and just not as sensual". The main idea of this qoute it saying that people dont observe the trip for themseles they view it as something to brag about and post all over facebook. After reading this article I feel that Christopher Elliot has the right idea and image of traveling. In my eyes he is a real traveler and he travels for himself rather then for anyone else.  As a class I feel we should limit the use of technology, as a child I use to go outside and play and create my own fun, I didnt have to worry about grabbing a phone. All I worried about was getting a piece of chalk, or a jump rope. I feel kids are so tied down with tv's and computers that they dont know how to create their own fun. In australia and new zealand as a class I think we should only use technology when we are trying to communicate with our parents, or when were about to go to sleep (watch tv). We should be able to entertain ourselves without the use of technology. The trip should be about exploring.