Friday, 22 November 2013
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Saturday, 16 November 2013
I Have No Real Friends So I'm Selling My Soul To The Robot King
I read a short article on loneliness in old age.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/15/so-lonely-isolation-drives-one-in-five-patients-to-gp-4187711/
The article stated that more people are now seeing their GP's because they are struggling with loneliness. It is understandable that in old age we find ourselves lonely. Generally the elderly have lost their life long partner along with many of their friends and are in a seniors home where they spend their days alone in the confines of their room. Without friends to come visit and families that are too busy to take a break from their schedules to visit, the elderly are left on their own.
But the feeling of loneliness shouldn't be something a younger generation suffers from. Yet social media encourages isolation and thus loneliness. It is already proven that today's youth have a harder time communicating face to face with their peers than generations before them. This is due to constant use of online communication and social networking.
What does the future hold for us? Do those crazy apocalyptic hollywood films about robots and technology taking over the world have some truth? I always thought those movies were dumb an irrelevant but maybe they make a good point. Maybe it really is possible. <---- thats a scary thought.
Thursday, 7 November 2013
Selfie
The selfie is one of the most popular ways to represent ourselves online. The selfie allows us to create the most perfect picture of ourself. We have the ability to choose the perfect lighting, the perfect angle, the perfect pose, the perfect picture (because no one takes just one selfie pic, lets be honest - we take at least 10.), the perfect crop, and finally the perfect filter. I believe the selfie is the most contrived way we can represent ourselves (more times than not we don't even look like ourselves... The strange thing is it is ourselves. Weird.).
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