Me and technologies for lack of a
better name
Me and technologies,
well I don’t even know where to start. Me and technologies have a very love
hate relationship. I feel in general, technologies are the most useless, but
also, the most useful stuff there is. And I know that don’t make a lick of sense but I’ll explain
what I mean. While technologies have been supposedly meant to bring us closer
together I feel they have really made a lot of the world further apart. the
spilt in groups on social medias are extremely bad, and they can be extremely ignorant
and mean to one another. I know that there’s always been splits in demographics
of people, but the splits have never been so aggressive in such numbers to one
another with such ease to be aggressive and spread hate. Example that bullying is
way worse now because of the ease of social media, that shouldn’t be happening
on a thing that is meant to bring people “closer together”. Not only does it do
that but it also makes face to face interactions seem less common. Peoples
communication skills are beginning to lack in face to face situations, reading
body posture and facial emotions and even looking into people’s eyes while
talking are effected after long periods of use of communication being done on
social medias. I also don’t see near as many kids out in groups walking down
the road doing stuff outside, then when I was a kid and up to late middle
school. Like me and the “bys” would be out doing “kid/early teenage” stuff all
the time like riding a bike, walking to go hang out somewhere, playing burnt
games like “red ass”. I believe it was called that anyways, the game consisted
of finding a wall, having a tennis ball and 4+ people. The person would whip
the tennis ball off the wall from like over 25 feet away and when it bounced
back the two closest people too it would try to catch it, if it was caught, the
person who threw it had to go up to the wall and risk getting hit with the ball,
if it was dropped by someone who attempted to catch it, that person had to go
up by the wall and the ball would be whipped at him (which wasn’t the nicest
feeling in the back, when someone gets a good baseball pitch off) the only way
no one went up to the wall was if it was a fumble and then it had to be thrown
from wherever it was retrieved from, and if it didn’t hit the wall guess what,
sucks to be you, your up to the wall again. Oh, man the welts from that game. The
moral of this whole story is you can’t put the name of a game called “Red ass” in
a story and not tell what it is, and also that kids now a day I feel don’t have
these messed up kid memories. Outside of gym class I don’t see many people
around my way doing activities anymore no matter how stupidly fun they are. Exactly
how they bring us together is beyond me.
The technologies have brought us much closer together worldwide in accessibility,
but also by doing that it has made the world seem smaller. If I want to be in a Moscow Russia street
view, I can go straight to google and see it from there, the adventure of
seeing the world has completely been taking out by the world- wide web. I grew
up also being told, don’t believe everything you read on the internet, that
somewhere along the way lines changed. Now everyone believes everything they read
when the content is all payed for, it is almost impossible to get an un-bias
story, not filtered in some way. That’s my feeling of the world since the boom
in technology anyways. But mean while don’t
get me wrong all these negatives have their positives to, like technologies
allows you a much more variety of information and ways of getting information. It
allows you to make tasks simpler and more efficient to do, in to confined
little items. A piece of technology I love is my phone for the remuda app for
my guitar amp it allows me access to a bunch of different amp sounds and
filters stomps etc. So, instead of
having to buy a whole variety of different amps and pedals I just have it all
on my phone. To control my amp, I plug
my chord into my actual amp and it changes it to that setting. My phone also
allows me to get a hold of people when I need them or just talk or hang out. It
allows me to schedule and so much more. But then here comes the love hate part I
said earlier, most of the time its doing stupid shit that makes no sense like
turning off for no reason, glitching out not responding and I’m all like “dude you’re
a new phone what the F@#$” nothing that expensive and that “up to date” should
work in such a shitty fashion. Example in the beginning of this term my S5
which held all my stuff for everything, just decided to update and die on me,
it is to this day in a constant boot loop and wont stay on it makes no sense,
nothing was ever done to it. It just decided its time was up and it wasn’t going
to work no more. Which was great I lost a lot of slides I took pictures of, old
photos and everything else on it. Then I got a tablet to replace the phone, it
was fine for the first little bit but that tablet just hates me as well. It does
its job on working but barely, its unreasonable “laggy” and constantly also
doing stuff on its own, I got a keyboard for it because you know I figured it
was better than the out of date computers, that we got, they are also extremely
slow and “laggy” as well but about 10x worse. I could just do work on the tablet, right? Was
my original thought when I got it? Nope
turned out to be the answer, when I typed up half of one of my blogs with the
combo of tablet and the keyboard I had bought for it, it decided to delete it
all via backspace style so I couldn’t get nothing back. I Learned then and there that it couldn’t be
trusted for work and plus it was super bad at properly picking up my fast
typing that I do in hard concentration. On
top of that, it never connected properly so I brought the keyboard back to the
store and got my money back. I was planning on doing the same with my tablet because
it kept getting worse but one day a couple weeks ago, I hauled it out of my
pocket and it had a dirty crack across the screen, so that plan quickly foiled.
Like for something that makes things “easier” it causes a lot of stress too,
like when I’m working and the internet is deciding to cut on and off, or I’m playing
a game and its doing it. Like if it all
worked properly the way its attended to work it’d be fine but I find that’s never
the case with technology. Most peaceful time in my life has been without a
phone for sure and I’d sure like to have a while away from all technologies’, I
might appreciate them more, but currently I see a lot of big major problems
that need to be fixed. The only thing I feel I’m truly addicted to with technology
is the access to music. I’d seriously die with out my music and an acoustic
guitar only goes so far. The problems I see in current technology is, some of
it can be fixed and some of it is a hard thing to do like the bullying will
never stop unless we start living in a perfect world, and the splits aren’t going
to come together anytime soon, with more hate being spread around then love on
social media (from what I see on it anyways) how is it. these things need to be
used for what there attended for, bringing people closer together and making
daily life less stressful and less difficult. If they do these seemingly simple
aspects, they wouldn’t be a useless, useful object in my opinion. Like its very
useful I can’t disagree with it, but with the current problems that arise
around my time with technology and what I see with it, it got a lot of work
still left to do in a lot of areas before I see it being solidly useful. And it
honestly also needs to stop consuming the user’s life. When you think about it, seriously how much
time a day do you spend away from technology. Its truthfully not much time in
the general aspect of things. Even when your driving there’s a radio, if your
home watching something its a television or phone or computer. Even running,
people use head phones so the activity you’d think takes the least technology there’s
still some sort of it used. I’m going to try to have days where its living my
life out side of technology like how humans originally lived like 100 years ago,
just doing natural stuff. I feel the break is necessary cause with all this technology
I feel we lose a bit of the soul inside, we don’t connect right to one another,
and nature and the art to life are being ignored by so many. Life’s beautiful and
I don’t need to see pictures or have some star/trend tell me that life is beautiful
either. To know that I can go outside
the door and look at the views admire the smells and sounds and feel the realness,
the sensation that is life and nature mixed all up in one.
