Technology

The masked woman and the technological man, oblivious behind the screen: welcome to the 21st century. Woman use technology as a mask and men use technology to hide themselves. All the expansions in technology are really allowing society to revert back; instead of branching out and "connecting", we are adding more wireless walls.

Technology is great for networking. With one simple "like", you can create instantaneous rapport. Likes lead to comments and comments can lead to a conversation (via Facebook chat, of course). However, it's easy to use Facebook as a shield. With the graphics and the links, it's easy to become absorbed in an online persona and forget how to socialize without the standard, yet passive pokes. People often avoid talking to their new crush in class and instead, add them as a "friend" online.

In this class, we're learning all about marketing ourselves. As a requirement, we are connected on online sites--we're all linked together on this blog site and we all have YouTube and so many other sites. But it hasn't made me feel closer to any of the people in my class.