Class Writing Assignment

Cunninghams vs. Campbells

It would be impossible for me to say my family is the opposite of the Campbell's. I would be lying if I said my family was not reliant on wires and gadgets, concerning my father makes a living off of them. He works as a database engineer, and is the biggest computer geek I have met. It seems to me that he knows everything about them. Whenever any extended family member, often my elderly grandparents, has a computer issue, Jerry is the first one they call. 

My mother also relies on computers to power her way of life. She works as a field hockey volunteer commissioner, so her e-mail inbox is constantly flooded with messages about field permits, practice schedules, and unfortunately sometimes parent complaints. The e-mail program is about the extent of my mother's comfort zone. For any other computer functions, she relies on my dad.

My siblings use technology in a stranger way: for their own recreation. Avery may look up friendship bracelet patterns from "Heather's Bracelets.com", and Ben often watches YouTube videos on how to play the piano or solve a rubik's cube. Unconventional some might say, I would just say weird. 


However, what makes the Cunninghams different from the Campbells is that instead of being hooked on technology, we use it as everyday tools. We still have our family dinners, family game nights, movie nights, and solid family bonds. The technology we use powers aspects of our everyday lives, but does not power us as individuals, or separate us from one another.