Sunday, September 22, 2013
Born in the Wrong Generation
Sometimes I honestly feel like I don't belong in this technology-filled generation and that I would live a happier life in a simpler time where peoples lives didn't revolve around the newest gadget or what is new online. Most people really don't realize how dependent they all are on technology; for example, take a walk around campus and you notice countless students with their faces buried in a screen too busy for any human interaction as they text message and tweet every detail of their life. Things become insignificant if they can't fit into 140 characters on Twitter, as we all just sit around waiting for the next popular social media platform to be released and control peoples lives. Chapter 2 of The New Digital Age reinforces this idea, telling how in the next decade, "The world's virtual population will outnumber the population of Earth". Schmidt and Cohen support this immersion through social media, stating that it will create massive amounts of data or a data revolution. My issue with this is the fact that half, if not most, of this data will be useless information created by users who don't realize they are trading away their privacy for social interactions online that could easily happen in real life. While i do enjoy using social media occasionally myself, its mostly just to keep in touch with friends and family who i don't get to see as much, yet others seem to live through social media, posting every superficial detail of their lives for all the world to see.
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I totally agree with you Chris. It would be nice to take a walk and see everything but technology around for once. It seems like every person is just getting more and more buried in it as time goes on and new technology is developed. I think that people need to use social media for needs more than wants; like you said about keeping in touch with friends and family. The people that live their lives through social media are wasting away reality day by day.
ReplyDeleteI agree that people put way to much emphasis on having to post something every day and have no idea what privacy is. Some people post things that are so irrelevant and meaningless that you wonder why they had to tell it to the world. It is definitely a changing world, people used to care what people thought of them.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this post. I agree with you that I would probably be happier being in an older generation where technology and social media either didn't exist or weren't as popular.
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