Wednesday, October 3, 2012

DIGITAL NATION

1. Everyone needs internet to communicate with friends:
No one needs the internet to communicate with friends, anyone in the world can hang out with others without any mechanical device, they can play sports or talk to each other or do anything without a mechanic device to communicate with anyone.
2. On the internet you can be crazy because no one is watching you:
If your on the internet and you post a video about you acting crazy, someone is bound to watch that video and say something about it; everyone must know that uploading something on the internet is made so everyone can watch it. So, I believe that you must not do any embarrassing or crazy stuff on the internet as people can always see you.
3. People can Multitask:
People who think that they can multitask believe they can, thus scientifically proven, no one in the world can multitask. With the research it was proven that people who thought they could multitask, they were actually slower than they believed they were at being able to do two things at once.
4. People distracted by social technology:
In my opinion, I believe that people aren't distracted by social technology because you can be social even when you talk to others at school, and in any other way that doesn't require a mechanical device or a computer. 
5. Learning from mistakes:
In my opinion I believe people can learn from mistakes as anyone can always quit social network programs or any video games. Even I personally stopped playing games for 3 months as I felt like I was not doing well in school and in getting grades. So, since even I can do it, I believe that anyone can stop using technology to get around anywhere around the world. 
6. Addiction of Gaming:
I believe that addiction of gaming is an actual addiction, as video games keep on pulling people into the game and keep making them thinking about the game itself. Even I was addicted to gaming about 2 years ago when I didn't even do any homework and just played games all day with ignoring everything around me. Thus I believe that people can quit from games to adapt to other things around them, but I believe that the gaming addiction can harm people seriously, mentally and physically.
7. Kids who grow up with internet are good with internet:
In my opinion, I believe that children who grew up with internet are actually better than people who didn't grow up with it. My dad works at the embassy and he is required to use the computer to do every kind of work that he needs to do, thus he doesn't know anything about the internet and doesn't even know how to look at the history on the internet when I do know. And he has been working with the internet for 20 years and I have only used it for 7 years, so I believe it proves that children who grew up with the internet are good with it.
8. Kids aren't as academic as they used to be with technology:
Kids aren't as academic as they used to be and I agree with it. Kids use the internet as they grow older and their academic skills just disappear and can't do anything. So, I believe that the technology is actually corrupting the children's minds from doing educational work.
9. Too much technology is bad for people:
I agree that too much technology is bad for people just like as too much water can lead to water intoxication and make you basically feint. And with overusing technology people can even die if they play games at a game tournament for a long time, and it is even proven and official that some people have died due to computer games (video games).
10. People don't focus on their work with technology:
With technology, when people are doing an essay or anything that they have to type on their laptops or computers. When I was working with any essay before, I always use to play one match of a game after typing one paragraph and then with forgetting everything related to the essay because I played a game, I would write totally different information which caused me to get bad grades.
11. Games give people a whole new life:
Games actually do give people a whole new different life. When you play any kind of game, you can actually become anyone you want to be, you can say you are anything or anyone on the game but you can't in real life. So, I believe that games can actually change your whole life in what you think you can achieve and do.
12. People can develop relationships in games:
I believe that people can actually develop relationships when you meet someone in the game and after you go into some convention you can actually meet them and do something with them so you can develop  a personal relationship.
13. The virtual world is somewhere where you can have a new life:
The virtual world is basically a place where you can have a new life actually, since you can make an avatar which can do anything that you can in real life, but do even more things. Also with having other people play with you makes these people happy and interested. Thus, it can ruin your real life when you are focused too much on your virtual life.
14. More technology can solve the fact of people being alienated:
I do not believe that more technology can solve the fact of people being alienated, because with more technology you would say that your friends with someone when they are on the other half side of the word. So, I believe that people should try to be social without having any type of mechanics.
15. People can work with others without going to work actually:
I actually believe that people can go to work without going to the office actually because you can actually just get a pair of headphones with a mic and just talk to the other employees and work. Thus, always working away from the office can actually make you lonely and not have any idea on what is going on around the world.
16. Our real lives are moving into virtual lives:
I actually believe that the real lives are being moved into our virtual lives as people are getting more and more pulled into the virtual live as technology is evolving more and more and is being allowed to even make people experience things that they never have before.
17. Virtual life can heal some stress in real life:
I do believe that the virtual life can heal stress in real life as when you play a game people are entertained and happy while playing which gets their brain off of the stress and can have them happy at the end. And even now the military are using technology to actually create the situation that would happen in real life to train.
18. Virtual life is keeping us safer:
I believe that virtual life is actually keeping us safer because even in the military people move drones that are far away from them and can still do their job but are not in danger because they are away. Thus, the people must believe that they are in the fight when they are flying because they could just become careless. So the people must have their mind set in as they are far away from where they are.
19. Virtual life can hurt civilians:
In the military, they use drones to cause destruction to the enemies but sometimes when they fire carelessly, they are not only hurting the bad guys but can also hurt civilians inside the building that they might be attacking. So, virtual life can provide anyone with benefits of being safe, but to the others out there, they are actually in danger as innocent people can be killed. 
20. Virtual life can even make children good at having real life fights:
I absolutely disagree with this opinion, because they are children and they are not supposed to kill other people and they are not supposed to be trained to kill others in virtual life or even real life. The military is making virtual life situations of war for children to help them train but that is totally wrong and I believe that the children must be smarter to understand that the children can't handle it. So, the military should never do anything involving kids in the military.


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