I am woken in the morning by the music playing on my alarm clock radio, I get up holding my phone in my hand and check my texts, it might sound silly but its natural for me. I text on my way to get wash up and text on my way back to my room. After getting back from washing up I head to my computer and check my email. I check to see whether my teacher had sent us information for the days class, or if the class is canceled. While I get ready for school I turn on my tv to watch the news and to check on the weather. On my way to school I sometimes use my ipod to listen to music but I choose not too most of the time, because when I wear my earphones I feel alienated as appose to when I don't I know what goes around me.I do love technology because it allows me to stay close to my long distant friends, families, allow me find locations when I'm lost, call for help, keep me sane when I wait on long boring lines, when I'm around annoying people I can play games on my phone or listen to music but I honestly can't keep up with how fast everything advances. Constantly companies are competing on who has the better coolest phones, computers, games, T.Vs! Its nuts, I honestly can't keep up, I am a poor college student who hasn't even paid for all of my books this semester. I had a nokia phone for 5 years until my friend convinced me to get a new one. Its not the coolest phone but its not thick and heavy. I try to keep myself up to date online but when it comes to my phone I just need a phone that allows me to call and tell time.
I have allowed technology, the digital media to manage my life. Over the summer I broke my phone and I felt out of place, I didn't know what to do with my time. I was able to keep in contact with my friends over the computer but when I went out if I was out and I wanted to text someone, what then? And what if my sister was using my computer? I realized that I didn't talk to my friends over the phone as much as I use to when I was in high school before texting was allowed. The only people in the my parents home that used the phone to talk were my parents. My parents use a lot more analog than I do. My parents call me to see how I'm doing, I would simply just text. We can't always rely on our technology especially art students, the more we put into the computer the less we work with paper, its important for students to know how to draw on paper as well as how to use the computer, we need both to succeed. We need a balance, we have to be digital as well as non-digital to function in the world.
