Tracking Trends

1) The focus of story one is on texting and how it has impacted our society today. People don't interact with one another face-to-face even if they were in the same household. Instead they prefer to text to inform one another about whats happening.

The focus in story two is the growing homelessness in Orange County and the place they are using to clean themselves which is at the Santa Ana Public Library.


2) The story about texting appealed to me more because in a sense i can relate to that. Whenever i visit my family in the summer,  my sister interacts with me through texting when she needs something and is in the room next to mine instead of coming face-to-face to interact.

3) From story one, “It’s the only reliable way to reach them when they’re upstairs,” said Remi Dansinger, a mother of three in Newton “They are always looking at their phones — at Snapchat or Instagram — so they can’t pretend they don’t see my messages.”

Story two, “One homeless woman told me, ‘We’re not animals’ and I felt frustrated for her, and for us. I felt such sadness for their plight,” Folmar said. “We’ve had people sitting on floors, lying on floors, charging phones. The study carrels were used for purposes other than study — and for things I can’t talk about.”