Chapter 6 talks about Danah Boyd’s personal experience in “participating
in the always on lifestyle” and she shares her perspective, and she also
provides a defense, on living on the “always on” lifestyle. Boyd starts
off by saying she love doing surveys but is always confused when she is asked
how many hours she spends daily on the Internet. I think it is pretty sad
that she is basically only off the Internet while she is sleeping or showering
because she is always connected through her phone.
Boyd’s first statement is that “it’s no longer about on or off” (p. 71),
because she says that “always on” does not necessarily that a person is on
their digital device, but because of today’s technology, the “online is just
around the corner” (p. 71). Boyd also states
that in order to maintain a healthy balance in interacting with life on and
off-line, people need to have self-discipline and find a balance.
Technology can be very effective to communicate with others. People now use things such as blogs to illustrate
and relate your personal experience with others who can relate.
The problem today with our society is not that we have not immersed
ourselves in the new society; the problem is that we have basically become lost
in this society.
So first off I did not know what #FOMO was until I searched it on
instagram. I have to say that it is pretty sad that people have a fear of
missing out and realistically this “fear” is absurd to me. The reason
being is because you will never be able to do everything all at once therefore,
you will always be missing out on something. Many of the instagram
pictures I saw were picture of companies advertising their merchandise.
For example this picture is talking about how they are already sold out of the
product but if you have the fear of missing out you can sign up for the future
product so that you wont miss out. Companies such as there are profiting big
time on the fact that people want the new stuff and for some reason they feel
like they have to have it.
Also, they have made new emoticons so that people can better express
their fear of missing out. This is what has become of our society … not
only technology but materialistic things too.
As for searching @snoopdogg, I found the usual which includes his
lifestyle of smoking weed and showing his colors, which are affiliated with the
Crips: and him making fun of others. The
only thing I agreed on with Snoop was this:
Snoop tells the truth here about how our society is today. Today we are more concerned about Bruce
Jenner and his transition to becoming a woman.
While he is not the first to do this, it has become an
attention-grabbing story because of his association with the Kardashian
family. I wonder if he was not
associated with Kim, Khloe, or any Kardashian for that matter, would it be such
a big story or would society just be like, “good for him,” and move on? Another thing that bothers me about this is
the fact that the Arthur Ashe Courage Award will be awarded to Caitlyn Jenner
and not someone like Akon who is helping many under privileged people or Noah
Galloway.
Noah
Galloway 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/svsHE4IFAH
—
Earl Dibbles Jr. ™ (@EarlDibblesJr) June
2, 2015
Finally, I would like to point out that I am no different than anyone
involve with social media. I think that I am on my phone way too
much. I have noticed this thanks to my husband who points it out. I
have tried to get better at this and I will allow my phone to die on purpose or
I will sometimes put it on silent and just leave it on my nightstand.
Growing up I did not have a phone or Internet handy. I got my first phone
when I joined the Army in 2005 and even then all of the social media stuff was
really hard to look at on the screen of the flip phone (razor to be
exact). It wasn’t until my husband was deployed that I became really
addicted to having my phone on me at all times. During his deployment, communication was very limited and I always had my phone on me to make sure
that I never missed a call from him. This went on for a year and once my
husband returned home I was so used to having my phone on me that it felt
strange if I didn’t have it. One would think having my husband home would
have taken this habit away, but it did not. I have gotten better and I
have made it a point to remind myself to put my phone down and just interact
with the people around me. Although, when I want to be “alone” I do get
on my phone, so this kind-of defeats the purpose of being alone. I hope
that as a society we get better at balancing our technological time and our face-to-face interaction time. I definitely do not want my boys to grow
up with a phone glued to their hands.
I leave you all with this ;)
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