We are literally 'Always On'. We now have the ability to access the internet, while talking on the phone, after sending a text message to someone you just e-mailed. There are all these options we can use today that 10 years ago had to be done seperately and not on the same machine that fits in the palm of your hand. New technologies form every year and we consistantly adapt and change to these new forms of communication and technologies.
Sherry Turkle's chapter 8 in her book, "Alone Together" is very interesting in how we are always connected to the internet and social outputs. In the past decade, these newfound technologies of smartphones and wireless connection has broughten us to a new state of life.
In my life, i am lucky to have a smartphone as well in the iPhone. I have the ability to do everything i need in a timely manner on my phone. It has everything from text messaging to having apps to checking the weather and anything in between.
Turkle brought up a great point about e-mails in the chapter. She talked about how anyone under 25 years old, e-mail has become an old form of use and technology. I believe this is correct in some circumstances. E-mail, in my eyes, has become something of the past and continues to do. With new forms of communication on social media outputs and on smartphones, e-mailing has become something one has to check but doesnt want to.
Being a college student, obviously i have to check my email for school and my personal email. However, if i didnt have those email accounts on my phone i would be lost. I wouldnt check my email as much if i had to log on my computer and check everyday because i just would forget or wouldnt want to. Having in on my smartphone is a great convenience for me.
However one might take it, new forms of technologies are being made all the time and we have to adapt to these or we might get left behind. These days, people adapt so quickly to these forms that it will be something of the past before we know it.
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