Today social Medias, cellphones, and TVs play an important,
powerful, and dangerous role in our lives. We have become more dependable on
technology and less eye-to-eye communicative, slowly we’re losing the need of
human interaction, we don’t even use our phone to make calls like we used to,
now we prefer to send a text message, post something on Facebook or Twitter , and
send e-mails to communicate with others. I think these technologies and social
medias have improve the way we communicate, it allows us to be in contact with
people away from us, make new friends, create new networks, it help us to
create and design ideas, share them with the world, and get feedbacks. There’s
so many advantage in social Medias as well as disadvantage the excessive use of
these technologies can lead us to depression, isolation, it takes our focus and
concentration away from us. Social Medias as Facebook and Twitter can destroy
our life; we tend to believe whatever we see online and we don’t realize how
much these insignificant post influence in our decisions. I guess that why
marketing is being so effective on people. One of the biggest issues with social
Medias is that affects our sense of reality. Social Media allows us to create
our own profile, and we tend to copy this profile into real life, although
those fakes’ profiles are based on our real ones,
they’re not real. Social Medias, TVs, and cellphones are addictive; is hard to ignore
them, but like everything else in life, there are two faces of the coin, and we
just need to find the correct balance.
socail media evolution
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
"Television: The Plug-In Drug", By Marie Winn
People predicted TVs would be a way to congregate families
together. They thought the bonds between the family members would get tighter.
When TV first came out, they were pretty expensive, but after a few years most
of the families had two or more. What happen after the invention of television
was the opposite of what they thought it’d happen. Today most families have a
TV in each room, even in the kitchen, that way moms can cook and watch their
favorite TV shows. Instead of bounding, TV separates us from each other. It
breaks family rituals and isolates us from them. TV affects kids and teen, when
they spend so much time in from of a TV they learn to respond to imaginary
characters, but they don’t know how to interact in an eye-to-eye conversation, and
lose the ability to learn from reality. TV can be very pleasant at the end of
the day when you get home, it may help you to relax, but it’s even better when
you watch TV with your family and use that time to bond with them. The TV
effect on you and your family depends on the time you dedicate to watch TV, and
time you dedicate to communicate with them.
"Games" By Steven Johnson
In this essay Johnson argues that videos games can improve
child development. Videos games allow kids and teens to be in touch with new experience,
in a three dimensional way without
exposing them into emotional or physical damage. It improves your visual memory
and manual dexterity. He also clarified
that reading is the best way to gain knowledge and improve or intelligence,
because through reading we exercise all our cognitive functions; encoding and
saving the information that we are receiving and then retrieve it. Both videos
games and books required concentration and attention, so maybe videos games
does help. From my point of view I think video games have its advantage, but
kids get obsess with those games that they forget about the books or anything
else outside the three dimensional unreal world. Johnson explains that in an
imaginary world where video games where invented before books, people will
prefers games and they’d think that books can lead people to isolation, because
they will only focus on paper and words, in the other hand videos games are an
open world. However video games can also lead kids and teens to isolation,
because the unreal world, where you can be whoever you want and do whatever you
want is so much better than reality.
Do We Control Social Media or Is It The Way Around?
I really liked Sara post “Liking is for cowards. Go for what
hurts”. The topic it’s similar to one of my post. We are mixing reality and
what is not real. People are forgetting the act of conversation, today we
prefer to communicate by messages. Suddenly everything we need is in our pockets
(our cellphones), contacts, friends, information, and so on. We spend more time
with our cellphone that with anyone else isn’t that crazy? We prefer an unhuman
gadget than a human being. Friendships are ending, because I didn’t like your
post or I didn’t follow you on Twitter. Couples break up because someone posts
something about your boyfriend/girlfriend and you, and the rest of the people just
believe it. We’re not living our lives, instead our smartphones, blogs,
Facebook, Twitter, the list is endless; those things are living and controlling
our lives.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Social Media, The Good and Bad...
Social media had improved our relations with other people making possible the communication between two individuals not matter how far they are apart. It allows us to share our ideas and spread them among the world. It allows us to ask people about their opinion and give them feedback. It helps us grow as a business person, helping us to make networks, and also help us to develop ideas and make them real. Social Medias also has its bad effects, such as isolation, some people spend a huge amount of time on their Internet, is crazy how smartphones have change our society, now we have the ability to do so many things with the touch of our fingers, anytime, anywhere, but it’s also addictive. It’s very bad distraction, we stop focusing on our classes and our job that at some point when we get home we don’t pay the attention that our families need. We spend so much time using our cellphones that we don’t notice what’s going on around us. Cellphones are a powerful, but also dangerous tool.
Social Media and Friendships
I think the biggest misunderstanding with social media today
is friendship. These new social networks allow us to have hundreds of friends,
but trying to keep the friendships without making feel bad your friend is the
hard part. Today people can contact you any day, at any time, from any where,
but if you don’t call or text back they will be really mad at you, because we care
for what people think about us, and if we don’t like something they post, they’ll
feel bad, and may also end the friendship. People also take very personal when
you don’t follow them back, or when you don’t leave a comment on their
Facebook. We need to understand that if you don’t receive a call or text back
is maybe because that person is busy or just forgot, and if one person don’t follow
you back that doesn’t mean she or he is not your friend. There’s a huge
difference between I don’t like you, and I don’t like what you post.
Cyberbullying and Teens.
Pediatricians are not only looking for health issues, but also making sure that the kids are not suffering “Facebook depression”. Social Medias as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and such are part of any teen life. Now they have the access to any information, although it has its advantages, it also has its disadvantage. The Internet allows us to share too much information about ourselves, and although teens are very knowledge about social media, sometimes they left footprints that other people can use against us. Cyberbullying had developed, years ago it used to happen face-to-face, the kids had the opportunity to fight back, but now with the use of Internet people can say anything about you and spread it behind your backs. Cellphones is another new way of bullying; teens are engaging new dangerous behaviors, like sending and receiving nude photos. Doctors are observing that Internet is causing isolation, depression, aggressive, and may lead them to commit suicide.
There’s a protection act for kids called COPPA, which says
that kids under the age of thirteen need their parents ‘permission in order to
have an online account, but how safe is this? Easily kids and teen can click the
“yes” button, agreeing they are thirteen years old or older. Parents need to
keep their eyes open is easily for kids to have access to the internet with all
the new gadgets out there, not stop the kids from use technology, but just an
eye on them.
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