In the world of today, there's one thing that controls nearly all of us: media. Social media especially- if you don't engage in social media, you are nearly a ghost to everyone else who does. Or as some people say, "I don't know what happened to her. She deleted her facebook and fell off the face of the Earth." Now, that's a rough thing to say, but social media is how people keep in touch. Everyone has become so engrossed in their own lives that people keep in touch with and make new friends via sharing images and posting statuses about their daily thoughts. Everything we do has become media and we have essentially become zombies engrossed in consuming the everyday information of our so-called friends online. Take a look back a year or two ago when a woman walked right into a fountain at a local mall in Reading, Pa while studying her cell phone- she basically zombie face-planted herself into YouTube history once the surveillance film was released.
All in all, the idea is that it's nice to take a break and breathe in the scenery around you once in awhile. With all the technology constantly changing and becoming a NECESSITY for everyday life, we need to keep in mind how to be humans.
Technology is only a necessity if we allow it to be a necessity, utilizing it without considering its comprehensive effect on the world around us. When we support large MNCs which avoid labor laws by manufacturing their products overseas, we allow our consumeristic culture to value commodities over people. When we let our daily lives be consumed by lcds, leds, and microchips at the expense of interaction with the real physical world and those around us, we allow technology to dominate our lives in ways that no culture before us has. Technology can be a crutch or a useful tool, depending on how we use it. So I agree with what you are saying wholeheartedly.
ReplyDeleteJessica,
ReplyDeleteMe personally,I don't engage in social media.This blog is the only media platform that I have,and i actually love it that way.Im not the type of person who lets social media control or dictate who I am.If that means Im a ghost to the rest of the world thats more than fine with me.Like the infamous saying goes "If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything".I guess what Im trying to say is,social media wasn't right for me, but I didn't keep my Facebook just to keep in touch.My real friends know how to get in contact with me,and as for new friends...I guess we'll figure that out!