It's scary how everything is monitored in our world today. Look at websites you go to and what you surf on the internet, when you go on another site there are advertisements that show up on what you were looking at. It is how they try to sell to you but also it's weird how the ads just show up like they know what you like and dislike. Facebook and MySpace does the exact same thing. Everything you post on someone's wall or post as your statu, or even post about your likes and interests, favorite movies and information about yourself, the internet knows. Ads will pop up like they know all about you. If you post your status as going to Florida, an ad will pop up on the sides on facebook about resorts in Florida. I guess what I am saying is Big Brother is everywhere through technology and online in our society today.
I don't know if we lost our privacy today, I guess I feel that in a way we have. It seems the government controls what we are allowed to know. But also, almost everything on the internet we look at, is viewed by someone or thing. I don't know, I also feel that we do have our privacy. We have privacy in our own homes, at school, we aren't monitored all them time. I wouldn't like that, in 1984, if we were being monitored constantly, I would revolt. I need and love my privacy. I couldn't handle being watched all the time. Yes I think privacy still exists, but little of it. We really only have privacy in our own homes. Online, in public places, forget it, everything we view or post, or whatever, someones watching and knowing. If some people are willing to give up some freedoms for safety, good for them. In my opinion, I think it depends on what freedoms they are for our safety. Like, coming from a journalist perspective, if we gave up freedom of the press, and not write about a certain I don't know a terrorist story to keep us safe, then fine sure. In hopes that terrorists don't read the story. I know it may seem a little confusing, but again I think it depends what freedoms we have to keep us safe, maybe I could do that. In 1984, how they pretty much give up everything they've ever known, lived through, how they can't think certain thoughts, I could never do that. I like the life we live in now. I don't think I could give anything that i've ever known up.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Life without a Feed - Blog #5
To live life without the Feed, is a little different, I can't connect with people through the m-chat, so I don't know whether or not they are talking about me. It is a little hard to get used to, but I am managing. I like not getting those pop up commercials or advertisement type things. I am saving money without using the feed. I feel free to make my own choices and think for myself. It seems that all the people around me with feeds, talk within themselves, they seem too caught up in it, they forget about the world outside. Life is easier, if other people talk about me through their chats, well let them, I am smarter and a better person. I enjoy life, speak up for myself, express my opinions in person and I know how to read and write. I am homeschooled and learn a lot about the world and history. Most kids my age, proabably don't care or know nothing of the world.
I find the feed, useful but at the same time, a waste of life. I don't know, I like experiencing life, nature and thinking for myself. I like not being caught up in m-chatting. It seems, every person who has one, focuses on just that, and just use that to talk to people. They don't like confronting people in person if they have a problem to talk about. They are too caught up in the Feed.
I find the feed, useful but at the same time, a waste of life. I don't know, I like experiencing life, nature and thinking for myself. I like not being caught up in m-chatting. It seems, every person who has one, focuses on just that, and just use that to talk to people. They don't like confronting people in person if they have a problem to talk about. They are too caught up in the Feed.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Blog #4: To live deliberately........
Living in nature with only yourself and the resources around you would definitely be a challenge. Look at our world today, we surround ourselves playing games, texting, using the computer and watching tv. Thoreau did have a good idea, "I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach." Living in a cabin by yourself in the woods, I think is a good way to learn about yourself and how live life slowly to its fullest. I think it's very important to live in the now and take every chance and experience you can get. I know when I go camping, I forget about home and wish to just stay there because it is fun. I love staying in tents, having campfires, wandering through the woods. I love just taking in that world and enjoying every minute of it, sometimes I just want to go back home. I couldn't live out in the woods for a long time though, only because I can't live without certain things in my life. Such things including my phone, the computer, and tv.
If I had to make the choice of living in a cabin with no technological devices, only me and nature, I don't know if i could do it. On the surface, I feel like I could do it, but deep down, I feel like there would have to be at least one day I would have to look at my phone or go on the internet.
Although, I do know what is like, living withough a cell phone not being able to talk to anyone. I know most people need thier phones to talk to people or text. I forgot my charger at home and when I was here at school, my phone died. I couldn't use my phone for like a week, it was so tough. It was definitely an eye opener, I was more social with my friends when I wasn't texting. It was tough yes, but living without a phone for a week definitely turned things upside down. I did a lot more social things, and it felt good to not carry my phone at my hip all the time. That is what Thoreau is trying to say, I feel like. That try something new and different, live without your luxury, "mechanical aid" he said, and live without your necessities of life, see how different and fulfulling your world will be.
That is what we should all experience, a life full of experience and slow it down a little. Take everything in. "why should we live with such hurry and wast of life." Thoreau said. It seems like everytime some new game or iPad type thing, or new phone comes out, it seems like people need to have it; so they go out and buy it right away. They hurry to try the new fad or trend. Why not take it one day at a time, who cares about hurrying to get the new iPhone, or get the new technology out for people to use. We waste our lives away playing with our new toys. Why not go outside make the day last longer, go camping, skydiving, or rockclimbing. Go live in a cabin for a few weeks with only your friends. I think it would be a blast and you could say you've done that when no one else has. It would definitely be an eye opener.
Emerson in a somewhat confusing way, in his own way, is saying almost the same thing as Thoreau. In that we need to experience our natural world, "ablsove you to yourself." I also feel that he does have a good point in that "I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." Do what you want to do, don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. If you want to go bungee jumping off a bridge, go do it, experience it for yourself, don't let your peers tell you it's too dangerous. I live like that sometimes, as bad as that sounds. I go do crazy stuff with people and when I tell that story to people, they look at me like i'm nuts.
If I had to make the choice of living in a cabin with no technological devices, only me and nature, I don't know if i could do it. On the surface, I feel like I could do it, but deep down, I feel like there would have to be at least one day I would have to look at my phone or go on the internet.
Although, I do know what is like, living withough a cell phone not being able to talk to anyone. I know most people need thier phones to talk to people or text. I forgot my charger at home and when I was here at school, my phone died. I couldn't use my phone for like a week, it was so tough. It was definitely an eye opener, I was more social with my friends when I wasn't texting. It was tough yes, but living without a phone for a week definitely turned things upside down. I did a lot more social things, and it felt good to not carry my phone at my hip all the time. That is what Thoreau is trying to say, I feel like. That try something new and different, live without your luxury, "mechanical aid" he said, and live without your necessities of life, see how different and fulfulling your world will be.
That is what we should all experience, a life full of experience and slow it down a little. Take everything in. "why should we live with such hurry and wast of life." Thoreau said. It seems like everytime some new game or iPad type thing, or new phone comes out, it seems like people need to have it; so they go out and buy it right away. They hurry to try the new fad or trend. Why not take it one day at a time, who cares about hurrying to get the new iPhone, or get the new technology out for people to use. We waste our lives away playing with our new toys. Why not go outside make the day last longer, go camping, skydiving, or rockclimbing. Go live in a cabin for a few weeks with only your friends. I think it would be a blast and you could say you've done that when no one else has. It would definitely be an eye opener.
Emerson in a somewhat confusing way, in his own way, is saying almost the same thing as Thoreau. In that we need to experience our natural world, "ablsove you to yourself." I also feel that he does have a good point in that "I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." Do what you want to do, don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. If you want to go bungee jumping off a bridge, go do it, experience it for yourself, don't let your peers tell you it's too dangerous. I live like that sometimes, as bad as that sounds. I go do crazy stuff with people and when I tell that story to people, they look at me like i'm nuts.
Friday, February 4, 2011
The Dumbest Generation!!
It has occurred to me that this generation we live in today, well, is the "the dumb generation" in a way. Growing up now, we rely on the growing technology and digital world. We watch television how many hours in the day, while my grandparents growing up had none to watch. They had to make their own entertainment. Facebook, MySpace and Twitter is now the new "fad" to check gossip or know what people are doing in their lives. That what this generation has come down too, instead of learning about history or culture, it is all about the latest tv shows, what someone's status is or who has the best phone. In Mark Bauerlein's articles, "The Dumbest Generation", he stated, "The problem is that instead of using the web to learn about the wide world, your people instead mostly use it to gossip about each other and follow pop culture, relentlessly keeping up with the ever shifting lingua franca of being cool in school." Which is what I just said above. That's kinda true I feel like, I mean most people don't have a facebook or twitter, but most of the teenage population spend their lives online. I only have a facebook and with school and stuff, I am barely on it, I'll go on it everyonce in a while just to see whats going on, but I don't spend my life on it.
In class, when we were watching that video, "Jaywalking", when Jay Leno was asking those people questions, I was thinking to myself, like are you serious?? I knew most of those questions, "Who was Moby Dick?" ok that was an easy question. Another question he asked, "the boy who cried.....", the lady said woof!!!!! That should have been a no brainer. The other one that schocked me, "The tourtise and the hare". That other girl didn't know what a hare was!!!! I was shocked that most of those people didn't know the answers to those questions. I guess that just proves to me right there that this generation does focus mainly on the world today, the culture today and being social with friends. It seems that with this new digital age, we just have everything handed to us. We have high tech calculators that do everything for us, or smart phones that make our lives easier. It's almost like we've become lazy, I feel like.
In Bauerlein's one article, he sees it "as something new and disastrous has happened to America's youth with the arrival of the instant gratification go-go-go digital age. The result is, essentially a collective loss of context and history, a neglect of enduring ideas and conflicts" and that our youth today know nothing about history and politics. Which I can see is somewhat true, but not 100% true. I feel like, most of the history we learn about is somewhat boring, you have to be interested in it to fully obtain it. Our generation now is mostly interested in regular, fun leisure reading books. Most history books are boring, not gonna lie. So, I feel like we are the "dumb generation" only because it is just something we are not that interested in, we hate being bored. It's not that we don't want to learn it, we just have different interests. I know I love to learn about the Civil War, I could sit for hours and learn more and more about it. It all depends on who you are and what your interests are to learn about history, culture and politics. The world is growing, who knows, maybe the next generations are gonna become the "dumber generations".
In class, when we were watching that video, "Jaywalking", when Jay Leno was asking those people questions, I was thinking to myself, like are you serious?? I knew most of those questions, "Who was Moby Dick?" ok that was an easy question. Another question he asked, "the boy who cried.....", the lady said woof!!!!! That should have been a no brainer. The other one that schocked me, "The tourtise and the hare". That other girl didn't know what a hare was!!!! I was shocked that most of those people didn't know the answers to those questions. I guess that just proves to me right there that this generation does focus mainly on the world today, the culture today and being social with friends. It seems that with this new digital age, we just have everything handed to us. We have high tech calculators that do everything for us, or smart phones that make our lives easier. It's almost like we've become lazy, I feel like.
In Bauerlein's one article, he sees it "as something new and disastrous has happened to America's youth with the arrival of the instant gratification go-go-go digital age. The result is, essentially a collective loss of context and history, a neglect of enduring ideas and conflicts" and that our youth today know nothing about history and politics. Which I can see is somewhat true, but not 100% true. I feel like, most of the history we learn about is somewhat boring, you have to be interested in it to fully obtain it. Our generation now is mostly interested in regular, fun leisure reading books. Most history books are boring, not gonna lie. So, I feel like we are the "dumb generation" only because it is just something we are not that interested in, we hate being bored. It's not that we don't want to learn it, we just have different interests. I know I love to learn about the Civil War, I could sit for hours and learn more and more about it. It all depends on who you are and what your interests are to learn about history, culture and politics. The world is growing, who knows, maybe the next generations are gonna become the "dumber generations".
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