Hannah's "Digital Life" Response

I completely agreed with the message that "Digital Life" was sending its viewers. Even though the tone of the video was pretty lighthearted, I thought it communicated a very important lesson to our generation. Digital life is changing who we are. Instead of talking with our family at dinner, we're on our phones, texting, or waiting until we could get back to our computer screens. Instead of communicating with friends in real life, we message them, or tweet at them. Most of our interpersonal skills are being lost due to technology! And, the thing about social networking sites is that they are just so very good at sucking us in and eventually becoming the center of our obsessions. People on Facebook may have thousands of friends on their account, but in real life, they may only know half of them.

"And now we tweet and blog and hashtag all our thoughts." It has become so easy for people to find information online, that nowadays, "google" has become a verb! Yes, this is extremely useful for researching projects. But people tend to post far too much personal info about themselves and their daily life online and on social networking sites. Anyone with wifi could access some of the things people post. How many times have we all heard stories about cyberstalkers, or pedophiles hiding behind their computer screens posing as thirteen year old girls? The internet is a huge part of our everyday lives, but I feel that sometimes we need to know when to draw the line and keep the two separate.

Like Ruvini, I also noticed the identical background music from "Video Killed the Radio Star" and the 2010 single "Check It Out" by Nicki Minaj ft. will.i.am. I think that these videos contrast the two generations very well, and not necessarily in a good way!