I often heard my lecturer said to everyone that nowadays is rarely to spend time with others face to face. Well, at certain point, his statement is considered to be true. I often saw many people are communicate only between social media and other technological as well. Back at my country, I almost everyday saw people communicate using BlackBerry Messenger a.k.a BBM, even when he/she stand next to each other. I'm just wondering, how could this be happening? When I was a child, I remembered the only one way to communicate between each other was using telephone. I rarely spoke to each other because of this. And then blam! Here comes technology! People were began to using a mobile phone and Internet became easier to access. PC and laptop became less and less expensive and many technological tools influenced the way people do their life. Many people began to exploited the power of Internet and started using social media as their way to have a "social life".
This social media things already shifted the way people runs their life. When people want some things, they just go to the online shop. When people want to see a education fair, they just searching it in google, and many other cases. It is just not right to seen people are inflicted to this kind of "new habit". My daily life for now is around technological related activities. Wake up, check my phone, turn on my laptop, searching any news, chatting, playing Facebook, etc. When it is compared to what I've done 10 years ago, it is very different. I'm not dependent on technology as like now and it created a social autism when people are only focusing on their phone instead of chatting to the people next to them. Is it will stay like this in the future? I just hope not because we, human are a social beings who need others to live from real world not online worlds. What do you think about this? Do people are still need social interaction in real life? I prefer to said yes because nothing will be able to defeat the meaning of being social in the real life
Social media will never stop real life interaction. In a way it enhances it I think. It gives the shyer people an opportunity to meet others and through this hopefully move it to a real life interaction.
ReplyDeleteThere are many things that used to be frowned upon with overuse, think gaming, although overuse is still a problem, people realised that it is the minority that get addicted. Same here, still a fairly new concept to people just to conclusions that SM will mean no one will have any more real life interaction, but it won't happen, you may have the odd bod that gets so hooked on it that it may become a problem, but there will be help for these people.
Ross
Yeah it's true Ross but would you think that will be a time when people are considered to be dependent on technology and with all the easy life like that, it will be dangerous for us
ReplyDeleteHahaha... while reading your post I was thinking about my how my sister and I, who live in the same house, will often use WhatsApp (a "Social Networking" app available for iPhone) to send each other texts, even when we are both home! E.g. when we are both in our rooms or someone is upstairs and the other downstairs. We even use it to send images of something instead of saying, "hey Natasha, come upstairs and have a look at this". Damn social media!
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