Once again I had no idea what to write my media blog post about, so I looked up different ideas online and nothing really seemed that interesting. But then when I went to my cousin's house for a birthday dinner with the family, I realized that everyone had their heads down into their phones or watching TV. No one was really socializing with each other for a while. I mean there would be a few conversations here and there between the basketball game that was on, but other than that we were purely surrounded by the world of technology.
Personally, I think technology is better in more ways than it is bad, but I do think there are some major faults in this creation by society. Every generation that is being born is being open to all this technology around them. The subtle ads, the violent TV shows, the songs about sex and drugs, and the ease of talking to people online instead of having a personal face-to-face interaction. When little children are seeing this all around them, they start to think it's normal because they don't yet understand that most of the things on the violent TV shows don't happen everyday around us. And that when we hear songs about sex and drugs, the artists aren't actually encouraging anyone to do that, they are just trying to make themselves look cooler to the audiences they are singing to and stand out. And all the ads that flood children's brains make them slowly become used to the ads and not really find any product to be one that stands out, so advertisers will have to brainwash consumers even more to make them notice the product being sold. Most of these things are described in a well-written article you can read here.
Here is an excerpt from the article I attached above:
Take, for example, the ability to work from virtually anywhere—whether on the beach, in a different country, or even from the comfort of our homes. Our hyperconnected lives have breached face-to-face and telephone communications. We are now connected to the network, spending a great deal of time online—doing everything from dating, researching products, shopping, and chatting with friends, to taking courses from leading institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We play games online with others across town, across the country, and even across the world. Video, music, and other forms of entertainment are just a click away. There seem to be no limits to Internet usage.
In this passage from the article, it explains the many positive things that technology has had on society, and I agree there are many, but it also explains the one negative effect that I think is the worst thing possible for society. I looked it up and the greatest fear of most Americans is public speaking, no matter it being in front of a large audience, talking to a stranger, or talking to that person you really like. This is horrible for society, especially with what is going on in society's overuse of technology. People don't know how to interact with people the same way they used to. Even my mom tells me that when she was young, she was always outside with her friends and only watched TV on the weekends since it was a new, special thing back then. Nowadays, you might see little kids playing around outside, but the majority of society's young generation are either talking to friends on their phones, watching TV 24/7, or playing video games with their friends online without having to be at each other's houses. I just don't understand the big hype about media's greatness because it really is leading up to making human interaction very difficult, which one day might make interaction be just through the use of technology.
Finally, There are so many dating sites and social media outlets now, where you can keep in touch with whatever your friends are doing or who they are with or when they went out. With technology like this, no one ever has privacy on their life. People just post everything they do, for what? To get likes? To make that special person see your selfie? To show people you go to parties? To make people think you're cool? Teenagers would deny that those things are true, but they are really accurate. Although sometimes I think that teenagers do these things to prove to themselves that yes, they are everything I mentioned above and everyone else should notice it too.
Please let me know what you think. Adios amigos/amigas!
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