Our World is Changing

When we try to complete something we are doing it with media and/or social media. With our second screen we are on Facebook, while we are doing homework, and also while we are watching television. Our society now consists of distractions especially when we are doing homework. We want to check our Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, text messages, email, or whatever else. And also listen to music, and catch up on our shows while we are trying to read or write a paper. Because our media consumes our lives it takes longer to complete assignments because we need to know certain things as fast as possible.  Social media is a big part of a student’s life, and maybe now anyone’s lives. It is so easy for us to obtain information, and we use social media as a catharsis, an emotional release. Since, it’s easy to find information we can try to use it as a way to escape. We like checking up on our friends without doing much. With a News feed, we can easily learn about what our friends are doing without even lifting a finger, we just have to scroll down. And students do this especially when we do homework. We become uninterested, when we are doing homework. We do not want to read, or write a paper, because we would rather check on what people are doing on Facebook, or catch up on our favorite shows on Netflix, or finish a video game while trying to complete an assignment. Being digital natives, we have dealt with our new technology, and how it has developed. It is a social norm to be on Facebook, or listen to music while doing Homework. Or, text or check Facebook on our phones while spending time with our friends. It is normal now to act this way.

            Our world is changing. The new technology is unfathomable, and now each new piece of technology comes with a social norm. It is normal to multitask. And things that were suspect from our parent’s generation is not as suspect today. This new generation is controlling how we live our lives because teenagers make up a majority of the Internet because of their social interactions, and how they know how to utilize the technology that is given to them. It might be considered questionable but or wrong but it is the new way of doing things and we becoming accustomed to it.