The love you cannot go without thinking about

The next relationship I am going to discuss is a special one. It involves something most collegiate women (and men) cannot live without. It something we obsess over, cannot go 5 minutes without thinking about, and feel utterly lost and alone in the world without. The relationship with your smart phone is one that is developing in a big way in college. This development might be due to social and societal changes and the advancement of technology. But for the college woman this relationship is one of the most developed and focused on during her 4 years in college. Often time the phone becomes an extension of your body.

            Each phone is unique to its owner. The super secret password, the background, and even the phone case are all things that describe the owner. This relationship is highly personal and unique to each individual. The accessories that come along with a smart phone really can tell you all you need to know about the owner. For example the hipster will have an ironic case, word password (opposed to number), and a picture of scenery as their background. The fraternity gentleman will have a sleek and subtle case, patriotic background, and Greek letter password. The sorority girl will have a pink or glitter case, picture of her sisters or the beach as a background, and a numerical passcode.

            You can dive deeper into a person by looking at their apps. You can tell a lot about a person from the various activities that engage in on their phone. For example some people will have every form of social media, multiple email accounts, and notifications on each and every app. Other people will simply have tinder. The things that a person engages in on their phone are very telling about who they are. Be cautious however when looking at someone else’s phone however because this relationship each person has is intimate and you need to tread lightly around it.

            The relationship with your smart phone can often times be significantly better than any other relationship for a wide variety of reasons. For starts, you can hit your phone and not need to apologize or worry about being hit back. When someone you are dating says or does something you don’t like you are not by any means allowed to hit them, however when your phone does or shows you something you are unhappy with all is fair in love and war. Just last week in a fit of feminine rage I smashed my phone into the ground while causing a dramatic scene and while my friends judged me, my phone did not. Another benefit to having your most functional relationship be with a piece of technology is the ability to erase something, if it is not there in the morning it never happened. I think the best thing a smart phone relationship has to offer is the ability to put it on silent when it is annoying, no explanation necessary.

            The smart phone will do things for you a man never could. It will always be there for you, and just you. It will be in your bed every night, it will remember things you can’t remember on your own, it will wake you up with whatever sounds you’d like, and it will listen every time you talk. While this relationship is fantastic be very careful it is not the only one you leave college with!