Todays modern world is based around technology. People talking on cellphones, emailing, texting and skyping to be able to verbally communicate with one another. This invention of technology opens the world to many new possibilites. My grandma was completely shocked at the concept of skype. Soldiers in Iraq use Skype to communicate with loved ones back home. Media today not only keeps us informed of worldly issues, the latest fashions, and keep track of our favorite celebrities it brings us together as a network. This network of media makes it easy for us to communicate across the world. Different companies from around the world internationally trade using such technological advances. If an individual is lacking knowledge in this new world of media they will suffer the cost of being left out of a world wide movement. Every student must be trained to work with technology and mass media mediums. In this class we are using different social media mediums; wordpress, Facebook, google plus as well as an online text book. As technology grows we will watch paper be used less and less in the media world. Textbooks are already being transferred online, applications for the daily news, my own parents have cancelled the newspaper due to my father’s Chicago tribune application on his Ipad. Technology has slowly started to remove the personal experience we have with one another. I cant remember the last time I sat down and wrote a letter to someone. Text messages are impersonal and broad, a letter is a well thought out speech that voices a message or opnion. In my hometown we had to go inside to deposit checks, switch accounts, even sometimes pull out cash. I miss walking inside with my dad excited for the yellow lollipop the nice woman would give me inside. Today I pull up to a metal box with an angry voice on the other end. The pleasure of the experience has been completely removed. Technology has provided our world with many benefits and ways of communication making this world an easier place to live. Technology can be easy to get carried away and taken to extremes. I worry about my Nephew and these new toys he has been receiving, there are toys that are meant to help kids adapt to technology at an early age. Being able to understand technology is an achievement, there are many different types of technology that all operate in different ways. If we don’t understand it we fall behind the rest of our generation.
Alivia 