How Computing Is Creating Our Lives?

Though digital technologies allow us to accomplish many things, we also have lost the ability to give each other our full attention. We prefer texting rather than fully engage in a conversation. An example in the book is Aubrey. Aubrey believes that texting allows her to stay in contact with more people at once because she can bounce from conversation to conversation. We as human beings, both children and adults, have identical patterns of compulsive disorders. We are obsessed with our devices. We never leave the house without our cell phones and what’s worse, we text or call people who are in the same house as us. While we are with our family and friends, we are also living in another world, where everyone accepts us for who we are through our cellular devices. Using our mobile devices, we can transport ourselves to different realities that we wish to have. These are online games that allow us to create our own avatar and live the life that we want to live. In that world, no one will be able to judge us for how we are. We are embracing ourselves through simulated lives with avatars and simulated relationships through virtual connections. Digital technologies have become the center of our social, economic, and professional

Social media has become one of the greatest developments of human technology history. In today’s society, human are surrounding by the social media and wireless devices. In Shannon Matesky’s spoken word poem “MySpace”, the poet explains “physical contact is more important than our number of contacts” (Matesky). According to the poet, Shannon Matesky successfully redefines the word “Myspace” from a formal definition of “the distance from other people or things that a person needs in order to remain comfortable” (Merriam-Webster), to an operational definition of the contact created on the social media. People now forget how to stay with face-to-face relationship, social media become the new way of communication. “We can’t deal with the face-to-face so we let technology replace the space that people are supposed to fill”(Matesky), said Matesky, we are losing the ability to connect each individual face to face, and socially connection has been taking over through social media by using technologic device. Shannon Matesky has successfully redefined the actual meaning of “Myspace” from the distance between two to the space one’s create on the social media. MySpace no longer refers to distance between two, but to

Social Media began affecting our communication and relationships as early as 1969 when the first internet service provider become available to U.S. universities. In 2002, Friendster, the first social media website available to the U.S. was created and gained over 3 million members in just over 3 months. One year later, MySpace launched. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, a 24-year-old Harvard student, created Facebook, an online social networking service. This service was originally a way for students to interact. Today it is the world’s largest social networking service and allows over a billion users to connect though posting photos, sharing links, and comments which all appear on a “News

Today, anyone can rekindle old flames with social media or update their status to keep distant friends close at heart. Somehow, Maggie Jackson sees facilitated communication as “clashing streams of rapid-fire imagery, floating in limitless cyber-worlds” that loosen any grip on intimacy (546). It’s understandable that face to face moments are deemed an essential aspect of connectivity. Still, a digital barrier seems minute in many circumstances. Every year college students drift far from home in the pursuit of higher education. For most, leaving family behind is extremely difficult and can even hinder the way a student manages emotions. With powerful tools like Skype and instant messaging, communication isn’t so difficult. Although looking at a screen isn’t “the real thing”, it allows people to feel closer and connected. A few glances at funny pics of mom or a second to see what a friend posted about their life back home can give a feeling of comfort to those that need it. This is progress. This is proof of successful innovation. Yes, focus is briefly split into “alternative virtual universes” but the benefits of cyber-mingling far outweigh the small cost of attention (Jackson 547). Focus dispersed between real and computerized life should be seen as a positive symbol of cultural

I. Computer 's are an integral part of our daily lives. Just about anywhere you go, a computer is present. Hospitals, banks, even the gas pump you frequent, relies on computer 's to figure out how much gas you pump, how much it is per gallon, and where to get that money from. As you can see from this line graph, computer 's are in more demand than ever peaking at 350 million sold in a year. (Computer Sales Statistics)

Why is that replacing real life relationship with digital communication become the norm? Technology is a fresh interactive way to connect in a non-physical way. Some people fail to realize that in virtual reality you lose the quality of your real self. Finding that balance of technology and face to face in the post-internet generation can better relate affiliations. Technology is disrupting the already too little communication of family and friends on a physical and non-physical way.

These relationships depend on technology to bring to them together.The digital platforms are reshaping everyday and everyone's lives also. We've been looking at the kinds of platforms that enabled us to take possessions of those things that used to be very restricted to everyone we know and to make them available to people we never met. And we concluded a very important insight, which was that as people's relationships to the things in their lives change, so do their relations with other

As a kid, I built people from numbers. From lists and characteristics that I believed would somehow craft a real person. I thought that knowing how a character took their coffee or what their favorite movie was would build me a real personality. Looking back on that, I almost laugh. Laugh at the ridiculousness, at how short I fell from creating a real person. What I was scratching out with my ballpoint pen was a lifeless replication of the intricacies of humanity, a paper person that couldn’t even comprehend the complexities of reality. Yet, what I laughed at is now an ever present and inescapable factor of our online world. Social media and the increased availability of this style of communication have caused us to relinquish our authenticity

The majority of our world is based around computers, but soon the day will come that everything we do is going to be motivated by the use of computers.

Living a virtual life can be great in the beginning until you abandon your true existence. In the generation we live in now, virtual living is our morning coffee. When you walk outside nowadays, every direction you may look, someone is on their phone. What could they be doing that is so interesting? Reading a story? Maybe, but more than likely that is not the case.

In the ethnography It’s Complicated by danah boyd, the subject of identity in relation to technology and the younger generations is explored. boyd examines notions of consistency between identities and how people contextualize themselves and their behaviours according to who they are interacting with. This is highly relevant to today’s society, as technology is everywhere in our lives; we use it every day, and it has become an important part of our worldwide culture. We use it as a way to express ourselves freely behind the protective barrier of our screens, and as an extension of our personal selves. However, the way we use our technology sometimes does not reflect our identity in real life, and as a result, our online identities can be significantly different from our real life identities.

Who we are through technological means such as Facebook is growing further away from who we are in reality. As the microprocessors and web designs are becoming more advanced and even addictive we are finding we are loosing who we really in the buzzing busyness of the Internet. Our identity is who we our from our minor mannerisms to our personality, its what makes you, you, even with the good the bad and the undesirable all included. However technology is know giving us the ability to throw what we don’t like about ourselves and replace it with weak words and an auspicious profile picture

Every day individuals are faced with countless decisions that have the opportunity to change their lives forever. These decisions can be larger such as career options or they can be seemingly insignificant ones such as choosing what kind of shoes to wear for the day. Although such a wide variety of judgements are made each day, there is a highly influential platform that is often overlooked. The daily decisions that are made online are perhaps the most significant towards how one’s identity is shaped. As technology has changed over time, the everyday use and purpose of it has also seemed to evolve. While the internet is often used solely in search of information, it has quickly become a platform for individuals to “recreate” themselves through

The Second Life (SL) experience is a great example on of how society feels more comfortable communicating and engaging through virtual life. Second Life for a beginner is somewhat complicated to navigate it is more difficult when you want to modify your avatar. Based on experience and observation I learned that people make money off this community, people who join SL have the intention of meeting a lover and have personal issues.

Almost all people in all ages are updating their profiles in various social media sites and interacting with others and with the world around them at the same time through smartphones and other digital devises. Yet, in the other hand, the idea of a technology that can fundamentally alter the way we experience reality without us noticing is quite un-clear. While we choose individuality in the sense of self-construction, many factors merge together to shape our new perspective on the world.