Cuckoo Poster

Technology…what would we do with out it? Our generation revolves around technology, many of us would be lost if it were to be suddenly removed from our society. We wouldn’t know how to communicate with each other or function. Majority of us may become hermits who sit in side not knowing what do we ourselves. After reading Posters article I started to think about my life before technology, especially before having my cell phone. Now whenever I do not have my cell phone I don’t really know what to do, I feel so isolated from everyone. I am so dependent on it and even though I can use another phone to call people I don’t really know anyone’s numbers. The only numbers I think I know are my friends who had a cell phone before I did. It was not until this past break that I knew my little sisters numbers, I would always have to look them up or ask them. I middle school before I had a phone I would walk around town with my friends on the weekends and after every place we went to I would have to use a phone and call my mom to tell her where we were going next, now we can call each other whenever.

Now so many people don’t even talk on their cell phones, rather they send text massages in order to communicate. It is easier because you are able to send mass text messages so that you don’t have to call five different people. For me it makes life easier at times because I don’t always have time to talk to someone so by texting I can ask them what I need to ask them and get a direct response without all of the chitchat. Now that my Dad knows how to text we send text messages to each other rather than talk on the phone. She prefers not to talk on the phone as do I because I don’t always have the time to sit down and talk but through texting and can send someone a text message on my ways to class.

We have all these different ways of communicating without ever talking to someone. People are now using the Internet to have meetings. Through having a camera on your computer you can have a conversation with someone and see them but be in a completely different country. We also have such things as AIM where you can have a conversation back and forth without ever really talking to each other.

Our class is a great example of using technology to communicate. We all post our response to readings and class discussion to communicate what we got out of class. Technology in this aspect has helped us because we are able to share our thoughts easily between each other. Before the Internet we would have to write papers conveying our ideas, but with that only our teacher would read what we wrote rather than the entire class. It speeds up the process of trying to understand certain readings because now we are able to read what others had to say about it or vise versa.