My Online Life (Assignment 2)

In this assignment, we were to create a list that portrays the major ways technology and the Internet has affected our lives.

Major way technology and the Internet have affected your life:

1   1. Never buy DVDs or CDs anymore because I use iTunes

     2.  Try not to buy paperback books anymore because I download eBooks
     3. I pay all my bills online and not send them through the mail

     4. Keep track of people through Facebook

     5. While overseas, I talked to family and friends over Skype
     6. Purchase merchandise online most of the time

     7. Research products online before buying them
     8. Keep life organized through my calendar on my iPad
     9. Use apps to play games or be organized

    10. Use a GPS to get everywhere
    11. Buy movie tickets online before showing up to the movie
    12. Rarely go to the library at school because I can do most of my work at home through my own laptop

    13.  Powerpoint for work presentations

To what extent are your observations and experiences consistent with those made in the article and the two documentaries?

               I notice, sometimes, when I’m at a restaurant and there will be a couple sitting across the table from each other, both with their cell phones out, not talking.  Once the food comes they will eat while looking at their phones.  Advances in technology has its pros and cons, and one of the cons is the loss of actual face to face communication with others, like the example at the restaurant.  We become so involved in what we are doing that we don't care what is going on around us.  However, technology allows us to communicate in different ways to different people all over the world, instantly.