To be honest I am so sick of using it. If you want to book tickets you must go through a line of questioning by an automated woman (I have research to back this up but they felt a woman's voice was necessary so people would not get as angry because she would be soothing) yeah right!!!! auto lady's are completely oblivious to the frustration they are causing which possibly makes it more annoying.
Now onto the questions. I was wondering, is it the general consensus that technology is better? Do we trust more in technology than in our own interactions and intuitions? What is it that makes us so afraid to be wrong.
It seems as though we follow the trends and become slaves to mechanical objects. We trust in them because we believe since they are machined they are invincible. Or possibly since they now run most of society we believe that they are invincible because it helps us sleep better at night.
Ok ok computers are useful in the sense of assignments and using the tools provided by the internet they make a good match. Using networking sites to deify friendships across sea, to indulge in love without boarders (ha technically) and to communicate/update with family.
Why can't we still send letters? I have actually never had a letter get lost......email on the other hand I have had things like. "delivery status failure" and "delayed result" or whatever. Some junk back saying to many people are trying to email at the same time ! what is that, you are the INTERNET YOU ARE UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF SPACE. You are prepared and find routs for anything.
This is the prime example I might be so bold to say. We all have some idea about the internet but no everyday person really understands it. That is also why when I am sending Ted, a project and I don't check my email until sunday night and It hasn't made it to its destination. I get frustrated. In fact I get so angry thinking about the marks being taken off or how I have to go to the trouble of explaining and printing out documents that my poor computer has taken most of the neglect in replace of the internet.
How am I supposed to smash my internet down onto the floor when it is a big ball of space. ?
I think i want be Amish.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
reply to my assignment 2 (Ted) aka tim
"To what degree does the non-use of or at-least minimized involvement with new technologies stand as a kind of resistance to the mainstream these days?"
while I do like how you put "resistance to mainstream" in a way I do feel as if it is. However I feel more like a technology outcast then a clever savvy rebel. I will say though that being anti-technology and not using the internet social networking as others do, makes me feel more humanized. I feel that if half the people I know were put in everyday social life awkward situations they would not know how to deal or feel comfortable or ignore it after the moment has passed. I on the upper hand have a way with people, you know that I would rather feel a real connection with other human beings, then using the internet to make connections. I know you all fool yourselves with that line "oh its faster or better for me, :fits my lifestyle" while I feel sorry for you then. I also believe Ted that the media has made my generation so dam insecure that the internet works almost as a security blanket, providing an out lit for my generation to reinvent themselves. I guess I dont feel the need to do that and I will keep using real human contact to suffice my needs.
As for the comment of the press of a button and you could become anyone. I am envious of generation, the base in which sub-culture you fit into was labeled by your style and the movies you like a recreational activities where you would meet others like yourself. Now we have people on face-book writing out their favorite movies ect. By the time you meet this person you could of had most of their personality likes and dislikes already picked out. whats their left to talk about. In your generation people seemed to be true to who they were. The other think is how did people make friends before a phenomenon such as facebook? town squares, traveling, school, sports activities, church socials? now how you go into a chat group called :"alternative music" and everybody that likes that is who your going to meet? NO! perhaps their are people who want to meet other people that like alternative because thats what they think is cool, so they are able to get away with it being in this chat room, because therefore no one is in from the same place visiting this chat room, no one can see that you dress like a private school boy/girl. No one knows anything about you. Or you have face book where I can see everything down to what underwhere you wore yesterday. I dont think their is a nice medium, I wish their was because then maybe I wouldn't think of most of technology as an evil empire........At the end of all this Ted I still feel like a technology outcast, and I am ok with that.
while I do like how you put "resistance to mainstream" in a way I do feel as if it is. However I feel more like a technology outcast then a clever savvy rebel. I will say though that being anti-technology and not using the internet social networking as others do, makes me feel more humanized. I feel that if half the people I know were put in everyday social life awkward situations they would not know how to deal or feel comfortable or ignore it after the moment has passed. I on the upper hand have a way with people, you know that I would rather feel a real connection with other human beings, then using the internet to make connections. I know you all fool yourselves with that line "oh its faster or better for me, :fits my lifestyle" while I feel sorry for you then. I also believe Ted that the media has made my generation so dam insecure that the internet works almost as a security blanket, providing an out lit for my generation to reinvent themselves. I guess I dont feel the need to do that and I will keep using real human contact to suffice my needs.
As for the comment of the press of a button and you could become anyone. I am envious of generation, the base in which sub-culture you fit into was labeled by your style and the movies you like a recreational activities where you would meet others like yourself. Now we have people on face-book writing out their favorite movies ect. By the time you meet this person you could of had most of their personality likes and dislikes already picked out. whats their left to talk about. In your generation people seemed to be true to who they were. The other think is how did people make friends before a phenomenon such as facebook? town squares, traveling, school, sports activities, church socials? now how you go into a chat group called :"alternative music" and everybody that likes that is who your going to meet? NO! perhaps their are people who want to meet other people that like alternative because thats what they think is cool, so they are able to get away with it being in this chat room, because therefore no one is in from the same place visiting this chat room, no one can see that you dress like a private school boy/girl. No one knows anything about you. Or you have face book where I can see everything down to what underwhere you wore yesterday. I dont think their is a nice medium, I wish their was because then maybe I wouldn't think of most of technology as an evil empire........At the end of all this Ted I still feel like a technology outcast, and I am ok with that.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
where do we pull social norms from?
Random thought : I was taking to a friend and they mentioned that when they went to sit on the beach for an hour head down just sitting drinking coffee no music staring into the abyss, that people would look at them like they were depressed or ask if everything is alright. I thought that was weird because I had done the exact same thing but not thought at all about what people think. It's like my parents tried to instill social habits and norms from their time period combined with modern age and I still disregard it. I realized today that I have no social awkwardness. I envy the people who say "god that was awkward I cant believe you/they said that. Think about what so and so will think. I then become mad for not understanding entirely the situation. I am not sure if this is a blessing or a curse. Right now it's a blessing because stuff that consumes the general population (social normality's) don't consume my mind. This is good. The bad part is I then am unable to interact with another human in this sense. Humility is that another way to interact with someone by sharing this moment together. I will never be able to have that until I start abiding by social norms. Is it worth me doing so, just so I have another way to interact with other people. ....anyways rambling.
Monday, September 22, 2008
The dawn of the social networking
This is a reply on my own blog to Stephens last post about habbernas,
Their are three main social networks that are dominant in my era. The first being face book. Pros and cons : 1.Easy way to get a hold of someone if you have a good Internet connection or Internet use at all.
2. you don't wanna physically carry on a conversation with someone. (while why are you communicating with them at all. to be nice? social rules society has placed on us?)
3. To have an online personality. this one is huge. Online personalities have opened up doors for the part of society that does not necessarily want to be seen or heard. They feel comfortable with the web forming as a mask for them to explore or exploit themselves. I looked up the definition for online idendentity was as followed :" The creation of online social networks like MySpace and Facebook, allows people to maintain an online identity within a overlapping online and real world context These are often identities created to reflect a specific aspect or best possible version of themselves. Representations include pictures, communications with other 'friends' and membership in-network groups. Privacy controls, especially limited to specific networks on Facebook, are also part of social networking identity."
so to agree with habernas yes online social networking is taking reality out of context.People are literally making up their own personality's or how they wish others to precive them. The thing is this is only for online users. what about every day people that you meet and communicate with. You get a distortion of reality.
however people can now present their own personality generaly without fear of being ridiculed, weather it be sexual orinentaion or traits, looks that they are curious about. the web of social networking allows you to speak to a varity of people about the subject your curious about annonymously. Same rules apply though you have to first shift though the bullshit.
The book "building virtual communities" is about exploring online identity. The authors put presure on the concept of the "mask" that was mentioned abouve. It is said that "They point out that whenever an individual interacts in a social sphere they portray a mask of their identity. This is no different online and in fact becomes even more pronounced due to the decisions an online contributor must make concerning his or her online profile. He or she must answer specific questions about age, gender, address, username and so forth. Furthermore, as a person publishes to the web he or she adds more and more to his or her mask in the style of writing, vocabulary and topics." this leads into what ted was saying about how they get all this information out of you without you even realizing it.
after reciving all the information about you it then opens up doors for consumerisim. YEAH!!!!! thier is now junk text mail. which is junk mail in text message form. I bet Mr. Bell is turning over in his grave.
Their are three main social networks that are dominant in my era. The first being face book. Pros and cons : 1.Easy way to get a hold of someone if you have a good Internet connection or Internet use at all.
2. you don't wanna physically carry on a conversation with someone. (while why are you communicating with them at all. to be nice? social rules society has placed on us?)
3. To have an online personality. this one is huge. Online personalities have opened up doors for the part of society that does not necessarily want to be seen or heard. They feel comfortable with the web forming as a mask for them to explore or exploit themselves. I looked up the definition for online idendentity was as followed :" The creation of online social networks like MySpace and Facebook, allows people to maintain an online identity within a overlapping online and real world context These are often identities created to reflect a specific aspect or best possible version of themselves. Representations include pictures, communications with other 'friends' and membership in-network groups. Privacy controls, especially limited to specific networks on Facebook, are also part of social networking identity."
so to agree with habernas yes online social networking is taking reality out of context.People are literally making up their own personality's or how they wish others to precive them. The thing is this is only for online users. what about every day people that you meet and communicate with. You get a distortion of reality.
however people can now present their own personality generaly without fear of being ridiculed, weather it be sexual orinentaion or traits, looks that they are curious about. the web of social networking allows you to speak to a varity of people about the subject your curious about annonymously. Same rules apply though you have to first shift though the bullshit.
The book "building virtual communities" is about exploring online identity. The authors put presure on the concept of the "mask" that was mentioned abouve. It is said that "They point out that whenever an individual interacts in a social sphere they portray a mask of their identity. This is no different online and in fact becomes even more pronounced due to the decisions an online contributor must make concerning his or her online profile. He or she must answer specific questions about age, gender, address, username and so forth. Furthermore, as a person publishes to the web he or she adds more and more to his or her mask in the style of writing, vocabulary and topics." this leads into what ted was saying about how they get all this information out of you without you even realizing it.
after reciving all the information about you it then opens up doors for consumerisim. YEAH!!!!! thier is now junk text mail. which is junk mail in text message form. I bet Mr. Bell is turning over in his grave.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
also frams that play your picture life back to you
One more thing. I was recently in future shop with my friends visiting from London. I came to a complete stop and a look of shock came over my face when I saw a guy trying to get commission on selling the couples on "digital photo-book" wtf? seriously who would buy that. I saw it playing pictures of this couple traveling and sharp images of the husbands chiseled abs with a glass of wine. yada yada yada. I don't understand this concept at all. My friends from London were all two familiar with it. They were not shocked nor questioned anything about this. To me I just don't see a purpose to it at all. Do you turn it on when guests come over to be a "supreme white person" (ref:"stuff white people like) and you then get to talk about all the cool places you traveled to in europe. Does this promote bragging rights? Then you best be switching it off when they leave. do you sit their and watch a slide show of your life to be nostalgic. To regret. to remember good times. I then came home to night and guess what was up on the table ...yeah you bet that picture "life book" seriously way to conserve energy go team go......(I apologize for my pessimistic response to technology) its not my fault, it made me into this monster of technology hate
undicided about face to the book
You tube has been such a big phenomenon in the 20th century crowd. All these online sources started to emerge when young hipsters started looking for an easy way to communicate. I have never been a fan. Others seem to check their "facebook" or email everyday. this mind boggles me. I check my email maybe once a month same with my face book. If shit is important people will take the time to get a hold of you. For example on my wall (which I checked 3 days ago) I had happy birthday wishes
bday was on the 3rd) from 42 people. Do you know how many calls I got? about 15 but they were from the people who matter most to me and me to them. When someone I like is having their birthday I phone sing happy birthday and most of the time make a card. I think I even do that for people I am not even close with to make them feel special. So thanks but no thanks if u wanna wish me a happy bday call me, dont waste space on my facebook wall wishing me the best. that doesn't even count as being thoughtful to me...basically when it comes down to it. that makes letters all that much more meaningful. when someone gives you a letter you know that shizz is serious stuff. oh dam facebook to hell. I hate social networking. So IF YOUR ON FACEBOOK ALL THE TIME. TAKE A DAY OFF BE A HUMAN AND TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS IN REAL LIFE......WHAT A CONCEPT HUH?
bday was on the 3rd) from 42 people. Do you know how many calls I got? about 15 but they were from the people who matter most to me and me to them. When someone I like is having their birthday I phone sing happy birthday and most of the time make a card. I think I even do that for people I am not even close with to make them feel special. So thanks but no thanks if u wanna wish me a happy bday call me, dont waste space on my facebook wall wishing me the best. that doesn't even count as being thoughtful to me...basically when it comes down to it. that makes letters all that much more meaningful. when someone gives you a letter you know that shizz is serious stuff. oh dam facebook to hell. I hate social networking. So IF YOUR ON FACEBOOK ALL THE TIME. TAKE A DAY OFF BE A HUMAN AND TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS IN REAL LIFE......WHAT A CONCEPT HUH?
Friday, September 5, 2008
first time
im so excited because I have no idea how these things work.....
my name is K-A-T-I-E.
I think im a communicating master
ipods particularly intrest me. as well as text messaging. most recently I saw a frame that plays your own picture album....this is very puzzeling to me.
ps sorry I can't spell at all
I hate computers and I don't understand their function or the internet...nor do I care too. I am enrolled in comns and art history and an english class. I hope to race off to SFU in jan. this is my third year.
my name is K-A-T-I-E.
I think im a communicating master
ipods particularly intrest me. as well as text messaging. most recently I saw a frame that plays your own picture album....this is very puzzeling to me.
ps sorry I can't spell at all
I hate computers and I don't understand their function or the internet...nor do I care too. I am enrolled in comns and art history and an english class. I hope to race off to SFU in jan. this is my third year.
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