Digital media has become very intrusive in my opinion to our lives, especially when speaking of two aspects that are very important. These two aspects I am going to talk about are modern family life, and experiencing the world or life as it has been presented to us. Digital media such as smart phone and lap tops have become a disturbance when you think about the relationships you have with your family and the experiences of the world that we have been blessed with.
When it comes to your family life, circumstances are obviously much different than previous generations due to the advancement in technology. I notice, not only of others but with myself as well, that sometimes family is set to the side in order to obtain the addiction to a medium screen. The biggest change of time spent with your family is at the dinner table. When out to eat at a restaurant with family, I have noticed that many families are spending more time fidgeting with their smart phones rather than using the quality time to interact with their own family. Even while at my family’s holiday dinners I have noticed the more recent generations of people are sitting on the couch browsing what their smart phones have to offer, and the older generations are wondering about the house looking for a new member of the family to begin a conversation with. As I spoke about in my paper, it is also interesting to observe how I have received numerous text messages or emails after performing well in a baseball game, but then 3 days later I receive congratulatory cards in the mail with a letter from the older generations in my family. Another part of family life that I noticed this past weekend would go as far as watching over your children. While I was relaxing in the hot tub, I noticed a family with younger parents come into the pool area, and whilst the children swam and played in the pool, the parents were glued to their smart phones, iPads, etc. There are more instances that fall under this category, and after you realize the effects of digital media with family life, it is very interesting to sit back and observe different events that fall into this aspect.
This next aspect of life that is affected by digital media is very interesting to take a look at. After viewing a video on the internet, it made this topic more apparent to me. Digital media is a complete disturbance to the interaction with the world that has been given to us to embrace. Now days since people live through the computer screen, no one takes a moment to take a walk outside and absorb the environment or beauty of nature. We have limited ourselves of full access to the wonderful world that has much to offer. Rather than actually visiting the Rocky Mountains, Niagara Falls, Grand Canyon, etc. we have found it just a pleasing to just view these images on the internet. Also embracing the abilities humans are capable of with a bit of training, we are more content to watch other people conquer these acts of exuberance. We have submitted to digital media to experience the sights and wonders of the world rather than interacting with it personally. People are more caught up in checking their facebook or twitter rather than fulfilling these wondrous emotions that can come of viewing something beautiful or experimenting and training our bodies to do some unbelievable actions. I have attached a video below that is meant to be one of the digital media that allows us to experience without actually embracing, but can also succeed in showing events that we are missing out on because of being occupied with a particular digital medium for hours of the day.
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