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Re: Your internet habits create your reality
Great article, Wes.
For this very reason, I limit the amount of time that I spend on the Internet. I definitely try to be critical about the information I choose to receive, which is also one of the reasons I cut the cable cord last year. I miss the times when life was more about getting out and gaining knowledge through experience than posting on Instagram. This weekend, I visited my family and my younger cousins were so entranced with their social media, they barely spoke to anyone. The only time they did speak was to tell us about something completely irrelevant one of their friends did on Instagram. It was disappointing to say the least.
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Re: Your internet habits create your reality
Yea it will be interesting to see how the "digital natives" are going to live in and with these new technologies. You may like this short video about how instagram is changing the way we process experience.
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Re: Your internet habits create your reality
Fascinating, very relevant to some feelings I've been having lately. Thanks for sharing.
However, I disagree with the speaker - I think it is indeed sad that this is how our generation lives their lives. How can we ever truly appreciate the present if we are constantly thinking about how the future is going to reflect the present? I dislike compulsively taking photographs and videos of events so that we can preserve them. Sure, it allows us to return to them later - but return to what? The time we only half-lived an experience, because we saw it through a lens?
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So true, Maurika. The adults don't seem to have any guidelines for the kids/teens. Most parents just tell me: "This is the world we live in now." I think they're tired of fighting with their young people and have just given up. At Thanksgiving? The younger folks wolf down their food, and if they even stay at the table, they just bend their heads down, and like you said, are silently engrossed. Good point about the interaction being "sharing something irrelevant."
I ask teens if they think we've "lost the art of conversation." They sadly agree. So I tell 'em they're FREE to use media however they want! They don't want to be left out, out of the loop, so I tell 'em to just get a group of their friends to agree and use media a little less, or have down times. I just ask them: "It comes down to: what kind of a world do you want to live in?"
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