The shallows beginning.
I have started to read the shallows and started to immediately feel much more open to this book rather than feeling very offended like I did during the dumbest generation. This is an intriguing book because he's not exactly calling us dumb. He's just saying we think much more differently than humans used to. We had a discussion in class about how the brains plasticity has changed throughout the growth of technology. and how this system has caused us to think productivity is the same as efficiency. Things like the clock, the map, etc; have changed how we think and do the things that people did a long time ago. The same with google. We can find something that would've taken maybe days to find in an instant on google. Our lives have changed which has caused our brain plasticity to change drastically from someone's who's 20 years older than us. I do very much enjoy this book.
Monday, October 15, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
The Truth about Technology.
While doing my Facebook Assignment, I realized something about myself. I am exactly what Sherry Turkle talks about in her book. I am a cyborg in the way she describes it. I have to be a different person online than I am in everyday life because so many people can access what they see and once you put something up on the internet. it is ALWAYS there. there's no getting it offline. So I have to watch everything I say because if i say one wrong thing, it may cause an uproar. When I was 15 I was listening to one of my favorite songs (not good enough for the truth or cliche by escape the fate) and i posted the first line to the chorus as my status "sitting in this room playing russian roulette" about 3 minutes later my mother busted in my door to find me sitting on my bed listening to music and doing my homework. This caused a problem with my stepdad's work because he's a minister and people were afraid he wasn't "raising me correctly" which I'll be completely honest I thought was bullshit. So from then on I was kept on a tight leash of what I was and wasn't allowed to put online. So I truly am not the person who I am in reality on Facebook. Not by choice. But by the fact i have been censored for so long because of my Mark's work.
While doing my Facebook Assignment, I realized something about myself. I am exactly what Sherry Turkle talks about in her book. I am a cyborg in the way she describes it. I have to be a different person online than I am in everyday life because so many people can access what they see and once you put something up on the internet. it is ALWAYS there. there's no getting it offline. So I have to watch everything I say because if i say one wrong thing, it may cause an uproar. When I was 15 I was listening to one of my favorite songs (not good enough for the truth or cliche by escape the fate) and i posted the first line to the chorus as my status "sitting in this room playing russian roulette" about 3 minutes later my mother busted in my door to find me sitting on my bed listening to music and doing my homework. This caused a problem with my stepdad's work because he's a minister and people were afraid he wasn't "raising me correctly" which I'll be completely honest I thought was bullshit. So from then on I was kept on a tight leash of what I was and wasn't allowed to put online. So I truly am not the person who I am in reality on Facebook. Not by choice. But by the fact i have been censored for so long because of my Mark's work.
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