With the advancement of technology nowsdays, people's interactions is shortened by the use of the Internet. Our lifes are becoming more and more digitalised. For me, I had indulged myself into digital life everyday I woke up already :p
As I am a smartphone user, I can get in touch with the world relatively easier by using my iPhone. Maybe I should probably say that, Apple has colonised the world already.
Or should I say not only Apple, Facebook is also doing the same thing as Apple I guess. Facebook had already invaded my life since I was in senior form. Originally I was just using because of my friends as my friends asked me for my Facebook account so that we could get in touch with each other. But after that, we all went to Facebook to type in our statuses, notes, upload photos, videos... Since then, Facebook become one of the communication tools, or to put to simplier, Facebook become one of my social life. With the help of smartphones, I can be in touch with Facebook, and also my friends more immediately apart from merely phones.
On one hand, of couse Facebook and other kinds of social networking tools like Twitter, Weibo, MySpace, Whatsapp etc, can certainly link up people from all around the world and interact with people more easily. On the other hand, it somehow makes people to talk less, what I mean by talk less, is that people are all merely look at the monitor screen, rather than interact with each other face to face, which makes the relationship much more colder. I can't really tell that whether the change is good or bad now... :(
Hi Vivian,
ReplyDeleteI hold the same view with you in that social networking tools link people together. And yet, I doubt that if this would makes relationship colder (I am not saying it makes us closer). So I am totally in dark about whether the change is good or not as well.
Recently I am reading a book titled "The Network Society" by Darin Barney. This inspires me to think deeply about how the Internet shapes our society. I highly recommend this book and I will keep you posted when I finish that.
Hi Noc,
ReplyDeleteI do admit that technolody really do helped us a lot in numerous ways, but somehow I was wondering is that good or bad with all these changes. I really want to read that book that you have recommended. Thanks for keeping me posted. :)