Monday, January 16, 2012

Reflection On Tech Usage


About my technology usage time, I guess I’m pretty satisfied with it, since I don’t really use much technology, only the essentials, probably like my phone or my laptop, but mostly the phone. My phone is probably the only technology that I use much, since it’s pretty much needed in my daily activities.
I don’t tend to rely on technology too much, so that proves that I’m efficient with my time and all. And since I lost or broke most of the gadgets that I owned, I’m not really able to have much activity varieties like I used to, and it probably changes my perspective so nowadays I rarely find interest going on the Internet, aside from communicating. I probably would go on either because of school works or just because I’m that bored, which I usually have books to company me, but in specific cases, I’ll retreat to technology temporarily. And besides, imagining myself as being a technology master person is just... weird. Half the time, I don’t even know what to do when I go on the Internet, because I don’t really play games, because most of them nowadays are just so boring and lame, and I don’t know any “nice sites” or anything, so I tend to Google them, and find myself opening these weird lame sites which aren’t entertaining at all… So my only choice is to open one of those comedy sites, or Youtube, where I watch funny stuffs... Even when it entertains me, the image of me laughing in front of a computer screen is still weird... even though everybody’s probably doing it as well…
I can’t say I have a positive response on having technology in our daily lives, having the humans getting used to it and eventually depending on it fully. I do try to not depend on technology much, but mostly everything nowadays requires at least a little bit of technology using. But as a student, it made our life easier and harder at the same time, like we can type a report rather than hand writing it, somewhat copy paste the internet for our reports or researches. The hard part is like when teachers expect us to learn so much more than the curriculum in the past, it has changed a lot nowadays, we are learning in a much wider range, which I mind, there’s just so much unnecessary learning to do and we’re missing out on what is really essential for our future or something. Anyways, other than that, my family is always occupied with their own gadgets, which ‘causes laughing at random times while staring at their phones or anything, being ignorant with each other since we are all so “busy”, and overall, technology prevents us from having socialization even among my own family. But with friends, I guess it’s a different case because we can now just text unlimitedly to each other 24/7, as long we have Internet or the phone services.
While doing tasks, I expect myself to finish the highest priority activity first, and I don’t know why but I unintentionally am always distracted by all the weird “captivating” applications. But after I get super close to the deadline, like an hour or so, I start panicking and I finally get started on it, for real this time. Even my “method” works, it shows just how lazy I am, and I hope I would improve sooner or later and realize how horrible and inefficient my way of doing tasks is.