Through out this course we have seen how individuals repeatedly are forming relationships online. Whether it be friendships through social networks and online gameing our exclusive relationtionships with websites such as eharmony. It is just another example of how society as a whole has changed and its relationship with technology has strengthed.
Many times one meets the important people in their lives in places they go constantly. School, work, the gym. The more that people interact in these places the greater the likelihood that people will find a connection, something in common that they can all share. Now as people spend more time online the chances of finding a connection with someone online also increases. For example on online games, people primary reason for playing isnt for meeting new people and trying to make a connection. Their main purpose was to play the game. As people spend more and more time playing the game, they make connections with the people online that are playing the games with them. Establishing legitamite friendships although the two people have never met.
This is also similar when people join the social networks. Often these are youed to stay connected with friends that you are not able to stay connected with on a regular basis. What social neworks offer is that different people can meet that perhaps may never have. With options such as friends of friends and being able to see what you have in common with a person technology has made it easier to make a connection with a person before you even begin to speak to them. What this does to how build and create their relationships only time can tell.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
This Digital Nation
After watching the frontline documentry i got to thinking a lot about my relationship with the technology that surrounds me and the habits that i have developed because of it. These are just some of my observations:
1. I am constantly texting
When i wake up in the morning i already have a text and perhaps a email or two waiting for me to respond. Before i say goodmorning to my parents im already talking to a sorority sister about an event or my significant other about his morning. At times my parents feel that even though i live under the same roof as them once im in the confines of my bedroom im in a cyber world. I am texting my friends, playing words with friends with my cousin, have the television on and skyping. Trying to give everyone attention. None the less priorities are set. Some people get responses right away while others have to wait a little longer. And sometimes i forget and dont respond at all. Out of curiosity my dad once ask how may texts I sent in one week. I that week I had sent over 4000 text and received close to 5000
2. i am always doing more than one thing:
when Im doing hw i have facebook open, or maybe my email. At the very least i have music in the background. When im in class im working on another classes hw on my phone and when im in a sorority meeting im also chit chatting about my day with someone else. ( while writing this blog im watching the latest episode of gossip girl while i give myself "breaks"). I dont know why, but i find the need to always be doing something else on top of what is write in front of me. I feel that i have grown up, used to having all these technologies at my finger tips and find it so easy to transition from one to the other that i cant not resist. Maybe this need to multitask isnt just technologies fault. Perhaps in our society the want to pack 28hrs worth of things into a 24 hour day has become the expectation, the norm and i have just jumped on that band wagon without noticing it.
3. as i update my cellpones and ipods and laptop ( which come with new features) i adopt them into my daily life
When my parents got my my first cellphone i was in the 8th grade and it was simple. It had a black and white back ground, could make calls and texts (although mine it not have that in the plan so i never texted). Two years later i upgraded to a never phone. This time in color where i could put a specific background and could text and make calls. I could also and my own personal ringtone. Once i was able to text i wondered how i could live my life without this feature on my phone. I repeatedly got this feeling when i could take pictures, video, email , web browse. Now at the age of 21 i have made the leep of no return to an iphone 4. Although factime calling hasnt become a habit i dont think it will take to long to become one.
1. I am constantly texting
When i wake up in the morning i already have a text and perhaps a email or two waiting for me to respond. Before i say goodmorning to my parents im already talking to a sorority sister about an event or my significant other about his morning. At times my parents feel that even though i live under the same roof as them once im in the confines of my bedroom im in a cyber world. I am texting my friends, playing words with friends with my cousin, have the television on and skyping. Trying to give everyone attention. None the less priorities are set. Some people get responses right away while others have to wait a little longer. And sometimes i forget and dont respond at all. Out of curiosity my dad once ask how may texts I sent in one week. I that week I had sent over 4000 text and received close to 5000
2. i am always doing more than one thing:
when Im doing hw i have facebook open, or maybe my email. At the very least i have music in the background. When im in class im working on another classes hw on my phone and when im in a sorority meeting im also chit chatting about my day with someone else. ( while writing this blog im watching the latest episode of gossip girl while i give myself "breaks"). I dont know why, but i find the need to always be doing something else on top of what is write in front of me. I feel that i have grown up, used to having all these technologies at my finger tips and find it so easy to transition from one to the other that i cant not resist. Maybe this need to multitask isnt just technologies fault. Perhaps in our society the want to pack 28hrs worth of things into a 24 hour day has become the expectation, the norm and i have just jumped on that band wagon without noticing it.
3. as i update my cellpones and ipods and laptop ( which come with new features) i adopt them into my daily life
When my parents got my my first cellphone i was in the 8th grade and it was simple. It had a black and white back ground, could make calls and texts (although mine it not have that in the plan so i never texted). Two years later i upgraded to a never phone. This time in color where i could put a specific background and could text and make calls. I could also and my own personal ringtone. Once i was able to text i wondered how i could live my life without this feature on my phone. I repeatedly got this feeling when i could take pictures, video, email , web browse. Now at the age of 21 i have made the leep of no return to an iphone 4. Although factime calling hasnt become a habit i dont think it will take to long to become one.
My Media Diet
Thursday:
Phone: 1 hr
Television: 1hr 30min
Hw: 3 hrs
Texting: throughout the entire day
web: 3hrs (hw,emails, facebook)
skype: 2 hrs
Friday:
Phone: 1 hr
Television about 3 hrs while doing other things
Hw: 3hr 30min
texting: throughout the entire day
web: facebook emails 2hrs
Saturday:
Phone: 45 min
Texting: throughout the entire day
Television 2hr 30min ( while doing other things)
Words with friends: about 1hr
Web: checking emails, facebook, searchs ( about three hours)
book: 30 min reading a novel
skype: 1hr 20min
Sunday:
phones: about 30min
Television: about 3 hrs ( while doing other things at the same time)
radio: about 1 hr (while driving to different places)
Texting: throughout the entire day
words with friends: 1hr 30min
web : email checking, facebook, hw referenceing 3hr 30min (all on my iphone)
book: 45mins reading a novel
skype: 2hr 45min
Monday:
phone: about 1hr 30min
radio: 1 (while driving to and from school)
texting: throughout the entire day
words with friends: 1hr
web: check my email about 4 times a day
facebook: browse it throughout the day
skype: about 2- 3 hours
Observations:
I think that what my media saying about me is that i have three priorities: school, my friends/family and staying connected to them at all times and spending time with my boyfriend even though we are three hours apart. Although i feel that my media consumption is about anyone else my age. I may text and skyoe more than the average person. I think that my media consumption will change once i graduate in June or if my boyfriend or i were to relocate.
Phone: 1 hr
Television: 1hr 30min
Hw: 3 hrs
Texting: throughout the entire day
web: 3hrs (hw,emails, facebook)
skype: 2 hrs
Friday:
Phone: 1 hr
Television about 3 hrs while doing other things
Hw: 3hr 30min
texting: throughout the entire day
web: facebook emails 2hrs
Saturday:
Phone: 45 min
Texting: throughout the entire day
Television 2hr 30min ( while doing other things)
Words with friends: about 1hr
Web: checking emails, facebook, searchs ( about three hours)
book: 30 min reading a novel
skype: 1hr 20min
Sunday:
phones: about 30min
Television: about 3 hrs ( while doing other things at the same time)
radio: about 1 hr (while driving to different places)
Texting: throughout the entire day
words with friends: 1hr 30min
web : email checking, facebook, hw referenceing 3hr 30min (all on my iphone)
book: 45mins reading a novel
skype: 2hr 45min
Monday:
phone: about 1hr 30min
radio: 1 (while driving to and from school)
texting: throughout the entire day
words with friends: 1hr
web: check my email about 4 times a day
facebook: browse it throughout the day
skype: about 2- 3 hours
Observations:
I think that what my media saying about me is that i have three priorities: school, my friends/family and staying connected to them at all times and spending time with my boyfriend even though we are three hours apart. Although i feel that my media consumption is about anyone else my age. I may text and skyoe more than the average person. I think that my media consumption will change once i graduate in June or if my boyfriend or i were to relocate.
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