Final Thought on New Technology

    While I’ve said before that it is hard to have privacy with most new technologies, they do make it easier to communicate with people you barely know in a less awkward way than randomly walking up to them and talking.  For example, I wanted to see if a girl in one of my classes wanted to get together and do a review sheet for an upcoming test.  I was able to Facebook message her within seconds of making my decision, and hear back from her quite quickly.  However, if it were not for Facebook or some other form of internet messaging, I probably would not have contacted her.  It’s not entirely normal for people to just knock on the door of someone they barely know and ask to do homework with them, but it is totally normal to ask via the internet.

     This then got me thinking that without certain new technologies like texting and Facebook messaging, I may have missed out on meeting a lot of cool people because I would not have been comfortable just talking to them in person.  The same goes for everyone else I’m sure.  These types of technologies allow us to expand our social network rapidly and in greater numbers than anyone has been able to in the past, and being a pretty social person, I’m glad to be a part of it.