Comments

Amber

This is a very interesting post. You used a lot of examples to make your point, which I think makes it a lot stronger.

Your point was one that I hear a lot (that because we spend so much time with our electronics that we don't have time for more personal things), but you also introduced more uncommon aspects, like how we are literally addicted to our electronics.

I think that the majority of people would agree with you, even if they don't feel that it's necessarily a negative. Certainly our parent's generation usually thinks of technology this way. I personally agree with everything you wrote, although I don't feel that it's worth limiting our use of technology over.

While at times your grammar was a bit confusing, the overall content of your post was interesting. Usually when people refer to 'not being able to live without their electronics' they are joking, but this brought up the point that it may be somewhat true. Still, I don't think it's the oppressive addiction it's cracked up to be. Nothing's forcing us to stare mindlessly at screens for hours, we do it because we enjoy it. The main reason that we'd have trouble surviving without electronics for a day isn't because we've become so Dependant on them, it's because in the process of enjoying them we've completely destroyed our attention spans. I think that the most likely candidate for someone to take that brave first step would be someone who doesn't mind being really bored.

You have some interesting ideas, and I'm looking forward to hearing more about them!

Andrew

Andrew,

This blog really says a lot about you. Honestly, I've never really met you, but I kind of feel like I know you now. Nice job with showing your specific perspective.

Basically, you have a bunch of different opinions on a bunch of different types of technologies. You feel that the internet is a great way to connect, but most people take it too far. You think that TV is great, even if there's nothing to watch. And you love anything to do with music.

I think that the majority of this generation would have a response similar to yours. We're all a lot less passionate about things nowadays than in previous generations, and a lot of people would have a reaction something like "I feel this way about this and that, but it's not that big of a deal."

Your content really gets the point across, but at times it's hard to understand because of your grammar. It's not so much the actual sentence structure as the fact that at times you start to lapse into chatspeak, which is a bit ironic actually.

One of the points that I found particularly interesting was when you asked if the people following others on twitter had nothing better to do. I sort of think that, at times, they might not. If that's all that a person does online, They're actually probably pretty bored but convinced that they'd be more bored doing something else. Twitter is like the ultimate speed dating: You can meet 40 different people in a minute and then never see them again. Maybe people are using that to fill in for some lack of friends in other areas? Just something to think about.

This post really shows your own thoughts and feelings, and I'm looking forward to reading more from you!