Week 3 Part 2

Part two of Week three is to talk about how I communicate with my friends and family socially with new communication technology. There are two main technologies i use to communicate.
Mobile
I probably use my mobile the most out of any new technologies for communication but even so I don’t rely on it and my family and friends get frustrated trying to contact me because I’m never around when it rings. I bought my first mobile phone at the end of grade 10 (2004) which was quite late compared to the people around me. At the end of grade 9, I had moved to Brisbane from Atherton, a small country town where no one but business owners had mobiles and no one was interested in them anyway. On further reflection, maybe it was growing up in Atherton that influenced my disinterest in technology. In the end it was my change in environment that influenced me to buy a mobile because I was in a place where socialising or at least organisation of socialising was not done over a landline phone.
Computer/ Internet
I don’t use the computer anywhere near as much as other people in my generation. But like most others I have been using a computer since the 90s and started out playing kids games on a black screen with green lettering and display.
In a way, I’ve kept up with the change of the internet and social networks. From the when msn started out and you could see what people were saying as they were writing it to the modern day msn that keeps updating every few months, to the live spaces accessed through msn to MySpace, facebook and twitter. I’ve never been truly excited about any of these trends but have tested them anyway and quickly deserted them.
I think the biggest turn off for me with new technology is that privacy is almost nonexistent. I love convenience and easier ways to do communicate, but I’m a private person as well and the fact that on facebook you can’t do a single thing without every single person on your friends list being able to see it on the news feed.
I don’t like that many people value communicating with a machine as the middle man over speaking to them in person. It may be easier but I think in a certain way we are turning into an anti-social world. And a computer may be able to let off heat and keep you warm at night but it could also set fire to the bed.