Now days,
young people spend more time on their laptops, iPods or smartphones more than they
spend time talking to people. This reminds me of the displacement theory, which
explains that people are more into their devices than into spending time with
people. The displacement theory is more prominent on young adults than elderly
people. For young adults, it would be much harder to unplug from all those
devices because it has been part of our daily lives. We usually need those to
communicate to people or to do most of the tasks that we do in a day. Talking
on my behalf, I can say that I wouldn’t be able to unplug from the
communications technology world, just because I’ve been growing up with it all
my life and I think that it would be hard for me to not have it around me
anymore.
During this
semester I got to learn a lot of things related to communications and technologies.
It was interesting to learn how technology is so important to the
communications world. How throughout the years communications has embraced
technology and how now days it would be a disaster if we didn’t have them or it
would be pretty hard not to have it. I think that today, people are to attached
to their devices. Now, we use them to do almost everything and it will be hard
to unplug from something that you use all day long either to communicate or do
tasks such as: editing pictures, make PowerPoint presentations, and so on. When
we discussing the displacement theory in class, it was interesting to hear that
most of us tend to spend more time on our devices than actually talking to
people face to face.
An issue
that I found pretty interesting was the privacy issue when we use the Internet.
I didn’t know that there was a company that stored all of our personal
information and sells it to different institutions. Most of us didn’t even know
that they were able to sell your personal information from if you are single to
how much you earn in a year. When we discussed this in class I got really
scared, because I usually buy my stuff in the Internet and now I am concerned
that people will have access to my personal information when I don’t want them
to. The worst thing is that I cannot even say anything; they just take my
information and sell it. Also, we got to discuss about cyber-attacks, people
who tend to do this are people involved in espionage. We need to be very
careful about cyber-attacks because just recently there was a cyber attack in
Iran’s nuclear system and if they had been successful a lot of people would
have died.
To
finalize, I think that it would be impossible for me to unplug from my
technological devices, because I use them daily and without them I would go
crazy. Now days, almost everything is done by electronic devices and to not
have that then we wouldn’t be able to do tasks faster or with a better
resolution. Also, people use these devices to entertain themselves, so we also
use it to escape from all the stress that we have sometimes. Also, I talked
about some things that we discussed in class that I didn’t know before like
privacy issues when it comes to the Internet. We need to be more aware of what
is happening when you click agree to those terms and conditions, because that
is when you are giving up your information without noticing. Overall, I really
liked this class because it taught a lot of things that I didn’t know before
and since I am a technology freak I always wanted to know how communications
and technology worked together.
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