Where do I think social media is headed? Hopefully right out the door.
When I was reading the “Mining from the Data Clouds” article this week I was honestly really worried about the future of our society. More specifically the part about cell phone applications, that to me sound like they are going to take over the world. The day my phone buzz’s to alert me that a person is within a certain radius of me that I should introduce myself to is the day that I am moving into the woods and taking on the life of a hermit. There is NO need for this kind of technology, really, what have we come to. If people need to have their phones make them new friends and introduce them to their future spouse then maybe we should take a look at what is wrong with our society and the laziness and inability to socialize outside cyberspace.
There are people who live in these little cyber worlds they have created where Facebook and Twitter are real life and they cant differentiate between the two. Over Thanksgiving break I was sitting in a room with 7 other people who hadn’t seen each other in months and I took a look around at one point and every single person in the room was texting on their cell phones… worst part? Some of them were actually texting each other. This is probably why I continually run into incompetent people everywhere, everyday. No one knows how to communicate face to face and this shows when you walk into any store and the employees scatter to avoid helping customers and cashiers are “tweeting” behind the counter… “oh em gee, work is so boring today!”… great well, now that I’m in the never ending line waiting to continue on with my life while you keep your online persona as up to date as humanly possible.
We basically are creating a generation of technology dependant individuals with the power to “Google” the answers to any of life’s questions. I read an article once that actually quoted high school students saying that they don’t need to study or even be in school because they can learn everything they need to know on their phones when they need to know it and that learning important dates and history was just wasting the space in their brains for other “more useful” information. This is a very scary, scary thought that these are the people who one day will be in charge of our country and our world but what is scarier is to think that we are actually providing them the platform to actually not need to ever learn this information.
** Here is an article that talks about Cloud Computing in regards to Mobile Phones
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