The advancement of digital media and communication technologies in the past 2 decades really has given me more alternatives to stay in contact with friends and lots of easier and handy ways to search for information.
Back in the old days, the first thing we did after we got up was to turn on the television for news channel or pickup the newspaper to read the news. Unless you have a pager, we have to be around the phone so that we wouldn’t miss any “important” calls.
Now, I can read newspapers, send emails, make phone calls, send text messages and search the internet with just my iPhone. In office, I have an email account while some colleagues even have a Blackberry so that they can check their emails every minute (or every second). We no longer need to go to the library if we need to search for books or information. We just need to google then we can find whatever we need online. We can even have a date online.
But, where is the human touch that we used to have? It’s pathetic to hear that there are people who will only TYPE “I love you” online instead of saying it out to the one they love. It’s pathetic to hear that my friend’s husband sent her an email asking what she wanted to have for dinner while both of them were sitting side by side in their study room surfing the internet. It’s pathetic to hear my boyfriend telling me that we don't need to see or call each other as we can msn.
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| The internet meant to bring people closer. Yet what about those who are already around but we just take them for granted? Are we really touching the person or just our own computers? |
In the movie “He’s just not that into you”, Drew Berrymore said “Things have changed. People don’t meet each other organically anymore. If I would like to make myself seem more attractive to the opposite sex, I don’t go and get a new haircut, I update my profile.” I think this quote has pretty much concluded how this new era has changed our lives.
I hope this course may help me to change my love and loath feelings to this new era. I do agree with Drew that it’s exhausting to go around checking different portals just to get rejected by them. I hope that by the end of this course, I could find ways to appreciate these new almighty technologies.
p.s. I meant to attach the full version of this scene (just 1:22 long, link attached below). It's available on youtube yet cannot be found via the youtube link on blogger. Cheers! To the Almighty Internet!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhOScZ92Jc0
