Dear World Wide Web,
For a class assignment, my professor has assigned us a project to create a blog about our experiences with the media. The professor told us to treat the blog as a journal. A journal used to be something that was intimate, personal, and self reflective. Now, suddenly a journal is something that is accessable to millions of people in all different countries. It is locked in the eternity of the internet. This is a simple metaphor to many other aspects of our lives today. The internet has turned many encounters that used to be intimate and personal into something that virtually everyone can interact with. It is sad to say that we have turned into this kind of society and have let strangers into our lives.
why sad? why isn't a community that created when strangers are invited to participate in our lives?
ReplyDeleteI just think that a community is a personal, intimate group. There are face to face interactions with people who genuinely care about you and their relationship with you. While we are letting strangers into our lives, sometimes telling them our deepest secrets and thoughts, we are also distancing ourselves from he people that we truly did once consider a part of our community, our friends and family. We lose that face to face interaction and the genuine meaning of a relationship.
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