East Lansing residents Karl and Dorsey Gude say technology has dramatically changed their family’s morning routine as they substitute traditional newspapers with e-mail, Facebook and Twitter.
According to excerpts from the article:
Today, Karl Gude wakes at around 6 a.m. to check his work e-mail and his Facebook and Twitter accounts. The two boys, Cole and Erik, start each morning with text messages, video games and Facebook.
The new routine quickly became a source of conflict in the family, with Dorsey Gude complaining that technology was eating into family time. But ultimately even she partially succumbed, cracking open her laptop after breakfast.
”Things that I thought were unacceptable a few years ago are now commonplace in my house,” she said, “like all four of us starting the day on four computers in four separate rooms.”
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