Is Being "Plugged In" Changing Campus Life?

In the book  A Meeting of Minds, there is a short story written by Liz Williams, Ethan Kolek, and Meg Kluge called, " Is Being "Plugged in" Changing Campus Life?" In this story, there are two college student debating on whether the current use of technology is destroying campus life at universities all around. Meg, who is against the amount of time students stay "plugged in" and thinks that social interaction between students, roles and leadership on campus, and membership among organizations are going down hill because students aren't socializing face to face but are too busy with technology. Ethan on the other hand is for students being "plugged in," he thinks that it is not weakening social interaction, but strengthening with all the many ways students can talk to each other online and how universities can learn and grow from all the outside resources the web has. In the end, although they both have separate views they both agree that students do spend a lot of time "plugged in," but it all depends on how the person incorporates the amount of time they are using technology and how they interact with people face-to-face. One quote I really like from the short story was by Ethan and he said," Students do spend time forming and maintaining relationships via technology; they also spend time preserving connections that predate college. However, students still interact extensively face-to-face." I like this quote a lot because it is true to me, I have met many people in college where i did not know them very well at first, but after talking to them through technology I got a better sense of who the person was. After we have talked a little through technology, it lead me to hanging out with them face-to-face and it was all because of talking on the internet that where I was able to hang out with them in person. Another quote that I liked was said by Meg, she said " Rather, I'm suggesting that we need to be extremely intentional and thoughtful in how we incorporate them into our lives, how we model their use, and how we build them into our institution." She is very right on the use amount of time we spend "plugged in" as students because if we spend too much time using technology we won't be able to experience college to our full potential such as joining clubs, meetin people in person, and taking leadership positions on campus.