Cartoon Analysis - Family Dinner

The main visual elements of this picture are the family members, and the dinner table with food. I think this cartoon is trying to say that the new generation will be too technology oriented, and may overuse the technology that is available to them now. The kids will now, instead of talking and communicating, simply post things on the internet for their parents to see. This will disturb family time, and other such activities. It will also ruin the communication with your family, which is what is so ironic about this cartoon. The internet and technology is meant to be a bridge for communication, but in this case that exact technology is destroying the communication inside a family. Technology is meant to help with long distance technology, but it is in turn destroying person to person communication. The speech of the father helps me understand this. But I think it would be more persuasive that even at the dinner table the kid would have a laptop or some way of posting or chatting with his parents without talking.