Okay, I’m going to talk about human relationships and how IT infects them. I think that in 2011 it affects the humans a lot, so of course also the relationships between us. We can use the cellphone, computer, tablet, and even games consoles now. So there is a lot!
A little too much!
If people want to contact me, they can do it with a call to my cellphone or in Denmark home phone too, send an email, skype me, and last they can use Facebook. So I have 5 different ways that people can come in contact with me, and I use it all. But sometimes it would just be easier to just talk to people, then you have to answer right away, sometimes it can be tiring to write a long message to people. When you talk, it just flows. Right now, while I’m here in Mexico, I use it a lot more, people writes mails to me, message me on Facebook and I talk with people over Skype. But it takes time to write a decent reply to people, and not just: “Hi ?, I’m good. I like Mexico. I miss you. Bye.” I would hate to get a message like that, so it can easily take half an hour for me to write to people, sometimes even an hour! That’s why, at times, there can go time before I get to write back to people, but that’s only because I want to do it as good as I can. So to follow it all, can be hard.
I saw this movie called “He’s just not that in to you” (It’s really good, very girly and feel-good-movie, WATCH IT! I mean only if you like that kind of movies, I do :D), and there is this girl that feel like me:
Mary: “I had this guy leave me a voice mail at work so I called him at home and then he e-mailed me to my Blackberry and so I texted to his cell and then he e-mailed me to my home account and the whole thing just got out of control. And I miss the days when you had one phone number and one answering machine and that one answering machine has one cassette tape and that one cassette tape either had a message from a guy or it didn't. And now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It's exhausting.”
It’s not like I feel that it is that hard, but I totally understand what she is saying!
Positive impact
We have had e-mails since 1971, handheld cellphones since 1973, MSN Messenger since 1999, Skype since 2003, Facebook since 2003, Myspace since 2003 and there has been internet on game consoles in many years now too, so you can communicate with a lot of things. And it’s not just young people who used it, it has become quite popular for elderly people to use the internet to play bingo and chat with older people while doing it.
And many people feel that all these IT-things have a positive impact on their live, in a study done in Seattle, USA, it showed that 76% of the inhabitants feel that IT have had a positive impact on their personal life. But then again its only 51% that feel secure when they use the internet, of that it’s mostly women, people over 65 years and people who don’t have access to a computer. So I can understand that more people would be confident with the internet, but if you’re not used to use a computer and didn’t grow up with it, I can understand that you are insecure.
This insecurity is also a part of the relationships on the internet, because if you want to chat with new people, you can never be sure that it’s the right person. On the internet you can be whoever you want to be, and some people used that to their advantage. In Denmark we are warned against these people, especially girls, because there can be some pretty creepy old men on the internet, disguised as a girl, that just want to be their friend. So you have to be careful.
I feel pretty secure, I know what you can do, and what you definitely shouldn’t do. And if you just use your brain, you should be okay. I have seen this Facebook update where this guy wrote something like this: ”Facebook have made this really cool thing, so nobody can get your password. Every time you write it, it will be made to stars. For ex. this is my password: ********.” Then he got a friend to write: “********, wow it actually works!” And then after people are so stupid to type their passwords as a comment, and then it’s not secret anymore. But how stupid can people be, of course it can be true! How would Facebook know that it’s your password your writing, and not just a word like your password? So as long as you don’t do something like this, you’re fine.
So what I’m saying is that it and the internet definitely have a good impact on the human relationship, we just have to be careful that we remember to meet in person, not just living in cyberspace, haha!
Sources:
Movie: ”He’s just not that into you.”
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