A Serendipity moment on YouTube

Is there a minimum age to experience serendipity?  Maybe not!  A four year old girl playing with her mom's smartphone likes to play videos from YouTube.  She loves the movie Frozen.  She can't spell to good yet so she would need her mom's help to type in keywords for the videos she is searching for by pressing the magnifying glass symbol on the YouTube app.  She learned how to retrieve previous searches by typing in the letter "F"  in the search box to pull up her favorite Frozen video's.  One day she discovered the microphone symbol after she pressed the magnifying glass symbol on the app.  A white microphone in a red dot at the bottom of the phone appears and it's radiating rings of circles calling your attention to it.  She speaks into it and it searches for videos she is requesting.  Hey mom I don't need you anymore.

This is just an example of how technology savvy a four year old who is attending preschool can be.  They ask for help and take it to the next steps in the quest for independence.  It's proof that early education makes and impact in a child's life and exposure to technology at an early age stimulates the brain to develop.

Just make sure technology does not consume the child.  They need to go offline just like us adults.

Our digital friends

Have we become so in love with our smart phones and tablets that we are losing out on social interactions and not smelling the roses along the way. We should have seen the digital evolution coming. When phones were still dumb with only texting capabilities we would text up storms instead of calling a person. Now we still text,  but also post to social media sites and have video chats. We have come a long way in a short time.

Technology is good if you find a balance in it and don't let it control your life. I have to admit my phone and tablet are devices that I need now and can't part with them. My phone is an extension of me to the cloud where most of my data lives.

Our children are becoming technology addicts too. My young granddaughters have android tablets and have no problems using it. They know how to to install apps and remove apps. 

It's all about being connected to everything. We wait for text messages, social media posts or a call. Call? Oh yes, I guess we still call each other if we have too. We share our life on social media sites, some times with way to much information. Let's try to keep the drama to a minimum, we all have enough drama in our own life. 

One good and bad thing is that built in camera on our phones. Used properly it captures precious moments that we can share and remember. The bad thing is all those selfies and stupid pic posts to social media sites. I like a good selfies and pics, moderation is the key.