In this information age, I only think about that we are no longer enjoy our privacy, but after reading the <The Medium is the age>, it offers a more impressive and critical description that how electric media changes my life. It says that inevitability disappears in society if I want to follow up what’s happening. I think this is a critical conclusion to put that we are closely bounded with each other. Basically, it’s not I’m surrounded by tons of electric information that matters, but I can’t have the freedom to avoid being disturbing by it.
This fact makes me feel being restricted. Taking the friend moment on online social media as an example, most of us formed the habit to share remarkable moments or daily tiny things on it. We can get to know how’s our friends going and what interesting things they have experienced simply by going through their moments without chatting with them face to face.
Our relationship changes as we count more on know a person through online social media. Friends express emotion through screens mostly by emoji, and that upsets me because I don’t know the friend I’m talking to is really happy or not. I can neither see or hear his facial expressions and laughs through typed-out words. It seems that it’s not necessarily important for people to be genius behind screens.
The other thing that makes me thinking is about the change of our family range. While the whole world is teaching to us what is a family supposed to be, our parents are also exposed to various information, regardless of is acceptable or beyond their understanding, especially for those who are relatively conservative. The fact that the Internets keep people of all age update about those fresh but crazy ideas, to some degree, can threaten some pure old thoughts. However, parents have the right to hold their opinions drawn out from their years of experience, meanwhile, kids should be able to keep naive understanding to the world at their young age. Why electric media can challenge them without their permission, and even criticize them.
Undoubtedly, every corn has two sides, and I’m not sure that if electric media developes without effective instructions and restrictions, whether its advantage will weigh over its disadvantages.