On Monday, four million people pre-ordered a slightly larger version of a phone they already have.

According to 24/7 Wall St., Apple received four million pre-orders for the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus within the first 24 hours it was available to pre-order. 

One of the new features on the iPhone 6 is Apple Pay. 

Apple Pay is a method of paying for items without a debit or credit card. It’s only in select stores for now.

Apple advertises Apple Pay on its website with this paragraph:

“Gone are the days of searching for your wallet. The wasted moments finding the right card. The swiping and waiting. Now payments happen with a single touch.”

Are we that lazy that we can’t reach into our wallets and grab our debit card?

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that whoever wrote that paragraph was exaggerating the “agony” that is paying with a debit card. It’s almost sad that anybody would advertise a product by saying that you won’t have to wait for your card to be swiped. 

Why can’t we take the time to search through our bags and pick out the correct card? Why does everything need to be so fast and efficient? Why does everything have to be a “get in, get out” process?

As a society, we are so obsessed with instantaneous action. We have no patience. Apple Pay is making these characteristics worse. 

Not to mention that Apple Pay will lessen our human-to-human contact even further. Even though the exchange of a credit card to a cashier is simple, it’s an exchange. It’s a small conversation. It’s human contact. Most people probably won’t even make eye contact with the person they are paying. 

Apple Pay will force us to stare at our phones even more. We will rely on our phones even more than we already do. Now, if one leaves his or her phone at home they may be launched into withdrawals, but they can still go out and buy/do whatever they were planning on doing. 

Shopping now is, usually, a social outing. It is a time where friends and family can make a day out of perusing stores and enjoying each other’s company. Mothers go prom shopping with their daughters, parents bring their children to Toys R Us for a surprise gift and young tweens go to the mall alone together for the first time. These times are important for people, and Apple Pay is speeding up the process of moving all social shopping to online shopping.

Online shopping will ruin these precious interactions.

I can understand that technology progresses quickly, and that it will change the way we live but I don’t like it. I don’t like that technology can’t progress without human interaction diminishing.