Look what is at our hands and what we do everyday! Smart phone, computer, facebook, email, youtube ... blahblahblah~~~~Think about how our life habit changes because of the continuous innovation of the new media. And these new media are like invisible air penetrating into our life in which we cannot live without it sometimes.
Nearly everybody get a smart phone now. Before the age of smart phone, we could only use cell phone for calls and simple text message or some even can play mini games like "Snake" which I liked to play very much when I first owned a phone. But now, smart phone is a high-end small portable device conbining the functions of different media like PDA,mobile phone, media player and camera. I would say the smart phones nowadays are portable mini computer to us! We can perform a lot of functions like a laptop does like web browsing,e-mail, playing movie and music, e-books and magazine,multi-media messaging,great variety of games etc. Smart phone is really a big technological change. Its all-in-one feature has changed people from multi-device tasking into one! And now we communicate with each other in a brand-new way!
Another profounding innovation that reshape our life is Facebook. I remember before the emergence of facebook, I used to share my life and mind in blogging like xanga and chatting with friends through MSN. But all these are becoming less popular or outdated because of facebook.Again, facebook is a revolutionary tool that gather our social network into one big complex social circle. It's a online one-to-many social platform. We can exchange status and share texts,images and video simultaneously with friends which allows us to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are in the world, linking the world together. Facebook changes our social habit. Unlike before, we can update and get in touch with friends just a click in facebook. We can also create events or groups to gather friends or people with common interest. It is a whole new way of social habit we have ever experienced.What elses do you think of any new innovations of media has changed our life??? :D
I do agree that Facebook has changed our social habits. Sometimes I play games in Facebook just because my friends are still playing those games, not because I like playing them. To me this is a new form of peer influence :P
回覆刪除I think smart phones and facebook are the results of our increasing pace of life. In the past, we don't usually do things in such a hurry, we make plans days before an activity. Now, we can just simply text or create an event on facebook just one day before an activity. I used to enjoy the interaction with friends on facebook, however, as there are more and more friends in my facebook, I was having information overload, there are too much unwanted post on the wall that drives me mad!
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