Bella (poster) response to starfish

Starfish, I really liked your post so I decided to base mine off of yours. You talked a lot in your first paragraph about life before our modern technology–What DID people do before cell phones? How did people survive before the Internet? In my life, everything I want and need is a click away. I feel anxious when I don’t have my iPhone in my pocket to check my email after every class. I mean, what if I had a new email, or God willing a new Facebook post…. Life before technology seems to me, “A vague, uncharted nebula”. I can remember the day my family got our first computer, the first time I used AOL. Poster said, “Electronic media are supporting an equally profound transformation of cultural identity. Telephone, radio, film, television, the computer an now their integration as “multimedia” reconfigure words, sounds and images so as to cultivate new configurations of individuality” (Poster 534). All of these have completely redefined our culture and our personal identities. Where would I be without my Facebook? Particularly interesting to is the college setting: we are on the cusp of freedom, but not quite there. I rely heavily on technology to keep me in touch and up to date with family. Yesterday, I had pictures of my new baby cousin emailed to my phone, followed by a video chat with my family later that evening. You asked, “Is technology helping or hindering us?”. For me, personally, technology helps me. If it weren’t for technology, I wouldn’t be at Rollins. I would have been too scared to go so far away from home, but knowing that my parents were a click or a phone call away makes the distance so much easier to handle. With technology, I have the entire world in my hands, or on my lap, for that matter. You wrote, “If technology does everything for us, how can we exist as human beings?” I’m afraid that without my technology….I wouldn’t exist.