Clture Shift

One of the biggest culture shifts I have seen in my life time is the way that people are entertained and spend their free time. When I was younger I remember my siblings,  friends and I playing house, making up silly games and playing outside all of the time. We would spend hours on end playing with each other. I remember one winter there was four or five feet of snow on the ground, yet we were still outside sledding or making snow men. I rarely remember ever watching TV, playing video games, or playing on other electronic devices. In todays society, watching TV and playing video games are daily activities that most people participate in. Not until the last five years or so have cell phones become a " necessity" that everybody must have. When I was younger, not everybody had cell phones; they were more of a thing that people used for business or if parents were not home a lot they could be contacted in case of an emergency. But today most people have them, even people as young as first and second grade are walking around playing games on their smart phones. In the past, when you would go out to a restaurant you would see families having a good time laughing and talking about what had gone on that day, but now one is more likely to see a whole family sitting at a table in a restaurant all on their smart phones. In my life time, one the biggest and most noticeable culture shifts that I have observed is the way that people entertain themselves.