Hello fellow bloggers! I hope you all had a great spring break. I had an amazing time traveling to Miami, Michigan and Chicago to visit friends and family (I was a busy girl!). Throughout my vacation, I kept noticing the role technology, mainly the Internet, was playing in making my vacation easier and in my surroundings as well. It's funny. I often don't consider myself a technological person, but the more we talk about it in this and other courses, the more I realize just how much of a "digital native" I have become.
Throughout my vacation, I thought, what did I do before the Internet? From booking my flight to Michigan online in just a few minutes on the days and times that were convenient to me, to getting step by step driving directions from my friend's home in Michigan to my other friend's home in Chicago (There is no way I would have made it there without MapQuest), the Internet was there every step of the way. While in Michigan, I was able to be the good grad student that I am, and do research through the library Website, communicate with professors and keep in touch with other family and friends. At the airport, I could skip long lines and e-check-in in seconds. My friends' roommate, obsessed with sports, spent the whole time reading sports blogs online. I was fascinated as I saw how she could enjoy sports on a whole other level by interacting with other fans and commentators online. She continuously announced the minute by minute news on all the different sporting events going on, and here I was seeing the true power of communication on the Internet.
The Internet is something I started using in the 10th grade, not at 3 like my younger sister, yet it has become such a central part of my life, that I often cannot wrap my head around how anyone did anything before it. How did one register for classes, find information on a restaurant, do research? Yes I realize it all got done, snail mail, the yellow pages, the card catalog, but oh my, what a slow way to function!
The more you study the media and especially new media, the more you start to realize the impact of these on your every day life. Throughout my spring break, I just could not help but notice the amount of ease and convenience the Internet, and technology, in general, adds to my life every day.
Do you ever stop and suddenly find yourself amused by the times we are living in or am I just a huge dork?!
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I share the same sentiments! I often wish we could jump in a delorian and travel to the future to see what generations will produce.
If you stop and think about how many things are improved or created with technology, it would blow your mind. It's crazy!
-B :)
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