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Technology is great. Never before has there been an era when you can balance your checkbook, search for a roasted chicken recipe, watch a cat fall in a toilet on YouTube and shop for furniture all at the same time with the click of a mouse. Everything is done with computers and internet nowadays, and while it's a great and amazing thing, there are a few things that are starting to genuinely concern me.

I recently read an article on Yahoo! News telling me all about childhood obesity. What does this have to do with computers and an excess of technology? Plenty. Children are spending more and more time inside playing video games, surfing the internet and watching cartoons than they are doing things that we did as kids-such as playing soccor or bringing home tadpoles in jars. Forgive me for sounding freakishly old-fashioned for my age, but a kid should spend their days outside in the fresh air, and not sitting on the computer like a lump on an office chair, blankly staring at the pixelated screen as their eyes are slowly and exponentially damaged by sitting to close to the monitor. When I was a kid, my summers were spent playing pretend or hide-and-seek with my friends up the street. Every wednesday afternoon, I had soccor practice with the Blue Tigers, and on Fridays I went to the Gateway Ice-o-Plex where my dad enjoyed a beer from the stands as I fell all over myself trying to do a triple axel when I couldn't even stand up straight on the skates. The frightening thing about this? Some young children nowadays don't even learn to ride a bike or can't perform basic motorskills because of their overdose of technology. This overdose, by the way, is also apparent in adults.

I'm sure that by now most of you have heard of the Lexus that parallel parks by itself. That is too far, my friend. I'm all for the GPS and heated seats, but when the car drives FOR the driver, I draw the line. Again, forgive me for being old fashioned, but I don't trust a computer to park for me, nor do I need a computer to park for me. Who remembers their driving test when they were sixteen? When you were asked to parallel park, the test did not include pushing a button for the car to park it for you. I spent a good two weeks and a good $300 dollars worth of bumper damage to my dad's truck learning to parallel park, and not just so that the Lexus automotive company could take that right away from me. Quite frankly, if you are incapable of parallel parking on your own, then you really shouldn't

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