Students go Crazy over iPods

by Jozmel Melendez, highlights, Opinion, November 12, 2008

Music has been around forever. People have been obsessed with hearing, dancing and sharing music. In the invention process of mobilizing music on the go, they introduced the portable cassette players, the only way to take your music on the go. You were the cool kid in the block if you owned one. When technology later progressed they introduced the CD player. This was the new revolutionary way to listen to music, and skip to your favorite song. Now introducing a new format called (.mp3) which is a compressed format file in order to store more files that you regularly could. Now you introduce the MP3 players. All sorts of them have hit the market and teens have been craving them since day one to satisfy their music hunger.

One company really hit the jackpot with their MP3 players, Apple, who introduced the Ipod in 2001. The all new mini computer programmed system to play all your favorite synced music files into an organized system through artist, albums, and genres. Now with the technology progressing, new generations of IPods have been introduced every year, each as successful as its predecessor. Who is buying them you ask? Everyone is, majority of them being teens. Teens bring Ipods everywhere they go nowadays. To the movies, to the park, family visits. There is no way to separate these kids from their obsession with their beloved Ipods. One of the main locations where Ipods have become a hit is schools, including yours truly Coral Gables High. Students are seen everywhere carrying their Ipods, each a different color of all shades with their protective cases.

 “I bring my Ipod to school honestly so I could listen to it during lunch or between classes and after school.” Sophomore, Oscar Alonzo said.  

Most students seem to part away from the sociality with their friends. This happens during lunch, in classes, and even when their out with their friends. During lunch, kids take out their Ipods and start listening to their favorite tunes. Students Stray away from conversations with friends because they start to listen to their Ipods. This could sometime lead to depression because they feel like they are not connected to the world. This is their way to disconnect themselves from the world that they do not feel they belong to.

In this order kids also pull out their Ipods in class. This disrupts them from any class learning that they should be consuming. As it may it seem, it does affect student’s grades, because they start to wonder into their world of music and not what the class is about or what the class is there to offer for them. So, Ipods are disconnecting kids and its happening now. 

“I bring my Ipod to school because I get bored and I could kind of zone out into my own world.” Junior, Sabria Mijares  said.

When you think about it, everyone has a different experience when it comes to their mp3 usages. Some deliberately decide to spend their time listening to their tunes while in class, and some use it to make their own little world more exciting. Everyone has a different view, but in the end, everyone is responsible for what they choose to do with their time. Music will be around forever and forever in our hearts.