Month: October 2019 (Page 1 of 2)

My day starts when I’m turned on and all of the notifications on my lock screen are read. Usually when I am unlocked, the weather is checked first. I hate how I am shoved into a pocket, and then shoved up against a door. The door always makes a loud beeping sound right in my speakers. I hear this beeping a lot because I think I have a room key in the pocket on my back. I am always carried around and never left, or forgotten, because of the key. During the day I sit in a dark pocket or back, but at night I am always out or in a warm hand.

I have so many social media applications and games. Other phones are jealous of me sometimes because there is so many fun things to do when you are bored. My person must be bored a lot because she spends a lot of time switching from games to many different social media applications. She communicates with a lot of people from home and people here at UNE.

My favorite thing about myself is the thousands of pictures that I store. I have about 3,000 pictures and I love every single one of them. The reason that I have so many is they are all special in their own way and can never be deleted. There are pictures of people, scenery, and animals. Mostly pictures of cats though; those are my favorite.

[Topic] In the article, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Nation?”, Twenge discusses how teenagers in the generation iGen have grown up depending on technology and it has negative affects on their lives. [Restriction] These kids have spent their time growing up with the tv on, being photographed by their parents constantly, and getting their own technology at an early age. [Evidence] My parents had flip phones, then blackberries, and then eventually iPhones and I saw how handheld technology completely evolved and changed throughout my life. [Analysis] I saw my parents depend more and more on technology as I grew up. I grew up influenced by that and when I got my pwn technology it became a big part in my life like many other iGen teenagers. I feel as though we as a generation do depend on our phones for things like our morning alarms, for directions, and for all of our communication. [Conclusion] Todays teenagers are very reliant on technology and it is because they get up learning from their parents about how technology can be important in everyones daily lives.

When I was at home this weekend I decided to do my 15 minute quiet reflection. I was in my room and I was home alone. It was midday and it was sunny out and good weather. As I sat there I thought about how nice it was to be home and have some quiet time for myself which I don’t usually get when I’m here at school.

I was thinking about Turkle’s views about how we as a society are addicted to out phones and to technology and I did have a strong urge to check my phone and text people back. I also was thinking since I was sitting there and doing nothing that I wanted to watch some Netflix instead. But I really sat there for the 15 minutes and thought about some things in my life instead of giving in to the technology cravings. I thought about which places in my room that I needed to spend some time cleaning because some German exchange students would be staying in my room in the next few weeks. I planned out what had to be cleaned and how I would do it. I also decided that I would condense my clothes into just a couple drawers to give the exchange students some empty drawers for their clothing.

Sherry Turkle is a psychologist and has already done a TED talk before about technology. Although when she did one before technology was in a much different place where online chat rooms existed and people were just beginning to stray from desk top computers. Turkle’s main argument is that we as a society are getting too involved into our mobile devices. Her evidence is that she surveys and studies people and she’s finding out that people are texting during board meetings, funerals, family breakfast and dinner and many other things.

My view, however, contrary to what Turkle has argued, is that technology allows people at a distance to connect as though they were right next to each other which is uniting the world in a new and unique way. It might seem like we are becoming more distant from the people around us, but in reality we are just becoming closer to people who are not with us at the moment.

Although, I do agree with Turkle that people sometimes prefer to have conversations over text instead of in person because it allows someone more time to think about exactly what they want to say without the pressure of having to say it immediately. Online communication is a way that people can communicate without being nervous about the person being right in front of them waiting for a response.

You used way too many filters, everyone knew that you weren’t really tan. Also, the colorful borders around your pictures did not add anything to the duck face selfies.