The Internet is generally known to be the most effective way of finding any type of information. The number of people who make use of it increases everyday. The exploration of this virtual world is rather fascinating, specially for younger people. Who are known to be discovering themselves. Knowing about new sites, chats, updates, etc. Has become one of the greatest topics to maintain a conversation globally. This is because the entire generation many different countries are often to know about these as well. By doing so, the youth focuses more on a virtual community rather than the one they are surrounded by.
Furthermore, thanks to the computers, people can become the habitants of this virtual world. People who chat through the Internet tend to feel more comfortable about themselves and their situation. Because of this it is inevitable to make these people become less dependant of the Internet. We could recognize these concepts as being similar to a real community and because the virtual community offers identity, communication, confidence, self expression, objective, etc. Like an ideal real community causes the gap between these two almost nonexistent.
How could it be any different than what it is today when kids are often introduced to this technology around the age of 6. Teachers and parents allow the children to begin adapting to this virtual world and digital/electronic media since early age, causing them to involve these on a day to day basis. Today it is considered Normal to avoid reality and therefore it is continued to be practiced and taught to future generations. Even if parents decide not to introduce this virtual world to their children. These children will be eventually forced to make use of them to become part of a community, either the real one and/or the virtual one. One example is, the current job careers in society. It is a natural interest to gain a large amount of money from a career/job. And the jobs that depend on this technology are often to give a better income than the ones without it. This leaves no choice but to make those who are after it obligated to know more about all the actualization's of electronic media to avoid competition. And by doing so they are also updating themselves on current music, movies, video games, sites, etc. which helps them have a normal conversation.
The use of technology has advantages and disadvantages. Some of the disadvantages include of course addiction, apprenticeship of bad words, access to inadequate content, discourtesy to others, or even anarchy. The main advantage of it is that the user gains more knowledge of his society and history. As well of any interest of that person.
Personally I have experienced living in the virtual world and depending of it. As well as all devices such as cell phones or ipods. This electronic media has become a crucial part of my life, and I imagine it rather complicated and boring living without it. I do feel more comfortable speaking though chats or any other communication program that the Internet offers. without mentioning that making friends from other parts of the world is one of the most fascinating things to me, although it was through the Internet. In the virtual community I am involved these actions are not considered unusual, and although in my real community is the same, the many hours I have invested into it is often criticized by older generations. This causes me to feel somewhat uncomfortable, which leads me to think that the choices of the youth regarding electronic media is misunderstood, rather than wrong. Because older generations did not grow up surrounded by this technology, they are not able to understand how it automatically becomes part of one's life. In my opinion someone has to experience something in order to fully understand it. I do regret spending so many hours using the Internet and depending on my phone. This is because I became aware of the life I was missing out there. However, I am not able to stop being part of this media regardless of how much I regret it.
In conclusion, the digital/electronic media will always be present from this point and on.
So it is inevitable to avoid the cyberspace into our lives or the next generation's. The government continues to provide computers or new technology to schools, and teachers continue to make the children make use of these. It is a never ending chain that will not only become part of our lives but our lives at some point.
Dinorah- I like the visual of your blog, I like how you used the different colors and added a picture making your blog more inviting and easier to read.
ReplyDeleteI feel like your main idea is that the internet and cyber space is just growing and growing pulling in more users as time progresses and because the internet is so addictive, this technology will always be apart of our lives from this point on.
I can personally connect to where you say that more and more people are using the internet everyday because, since we were one of the first generations to grow up with this technology and we are so casual using it, we are the ones teaching our parents and grandparents how to use them, in addition, when we get older, the next generations to come are going to be taught to use computers and internet by us which causes the internet users to increase.
I think this blog could be further developed if you organized your ideas and put them in a logical order. I understand for the assigment it did not really need to be organized but if you wanted to do another draft, for example, that's what I would suggest.
I like how you pointed out that there is a completely different environment and tone from when you talk to your online community to when you talk to the community you see every day. I think that after reading your blog I will notice it more.
Your ideas were interesting and I'd like to hear more from you throughout the year!-Sandy