i guess i was first introduced to cyberculture in middle school. when it was popular to IM. if you got that cute boy's screen name you were in. it was another way of gossiping as well. i stopped unsing AIM until like 2 years ago. i only do it now, to keep in touch with friends i dont get to see much. its more convinient communication. Cyberculture is basically any type of communication or interaction through the web or electronics. so everything we do essentially can be considered cyberculture. music, movies, art, games, shopping,cell phones, iPods, TV...
im effected negatively by it b/c since it is everywhere, we, including myslef, get so dependent on our electonic devices that when something shuts down or gets lost, we freak out. "omg, what do i do now?my whole life was on that thing!" that "thing" may just be a small peice of plastic or some wires connected in the right way to satisfy us. we forget how to please ourselves or connect with others w/out cyber connections. we take it for granted until it's gone. i heard that some day all of our electronics will turn against us. that is such a cool thought and i hope it happens. it would be pretty funny.
anyways...positively; i dont think ive been effected. it's rather that it has helped me stay connected to people i dont want to lose touch with.
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5 comments:
I agree that in middle school I was first introduced to IM. I think your right that we havnt been affected but helped us better connect with people on a more personal level over the internet
You may be right that you haven't been effected. But would you still talk to some of the people that you do online if it wasn't for AIM? Being away at college is a busy time and people drift away. AIM can help to stay connected and those people who you are connected with effect you in different ways. In that way, AIM has indirectly effected you and the way you live your life.
I like what you said about getting into the IM at middle school age, i can totally relate. And it always helped to have that cute boys screen name. I have not been on AIM in at least two years and the last time i logged on just to see if I still remembered my password everything was different. But Yum1234 also brought up a good point about if it werent for AIM would you still talk to those friends who you dont talk to on the phone?
Ahhh yes, I remember back in grade school when IMing was what everyone and their mother was on. And Cristina is right. Today's society is soo dependent upon the internet and cell phones that everyone forgets the small things in life that we really should appreciate. This is why I always wanted to grow up during decades where life was simple and nothing was based on the internet.
I don't really like some of the statements you made about cyber culture. I personally interact through cyber culture with many people everyday. Yes I agree that cyber culture can make our lives easier, and that some may depend on it too much and are lost without it. However, the thought of technology turning on us is ridiculous in my mind. I see technology growing and advancing. I see technology improving our way of lives and making things faster and better, but now I am talking more about technology and not about cyber culture. Cyber culture is similar to technology and is so tied into technology that we may think of them as the same. Cyber culture is a way of using technology to communicate, and when used to its full potential one can view and talk to anyone anywhere in the world at anytime.
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