HW 7 Interviews and Surveys

Question to member of the family:

Why do you think that we are obsess in going on to the digitalization such as Facebook with checking the notifications and the new things that are up on their pages or others pages?

She said that because they want to make "friends" on Facebook and "they would want to keep in contact with people and to play new games there". She also answered that "Maybe some people believed that people that they know in this country does not 'match' them or they can't go hang out with them. However, making new friends that are from another country may be new sparks and new interests to people".

Then I ask, to get more answers, "what do you think about what those people are feeling when using these electronics or going on Facebook to do what they are doing?"

She answered, "Either they are happy with using the electronics because 1) they are able to enjoy the pleasure of using this new electronics, 2) like on Facebook, they might be lonely and looking for someone to be friends and talk to, 3) connecting to Facebook, such as for the guys, they would want to find a girlfriend or someone to flirt with (and she heard stories about it too).

Edit: September 23, 2009:

What was the worst and best modern inventions and why?

The Passerbys' answers

Passerby #1: The male said that the best invention was the seranrap (not sure of the spelling and didn't want to interrupt the man). He said the modern inventions are wonderful because of its marvelous form of communication. The quality of information is very nice (because its always upgrading). However the bad or worst modern inventions was events like the meltdown of the Wall St. How the inventions can be misused because of greed. He also said interesting statement that the content of the mind comes first, that we came up with the ideas thats how things can get worse. However the sharing information was good use.

Are you able to live without your electronic or are you able to still have fun without it?

Passerby #2: The man uses the electronic a lot, like the blackbery or "crackbery" for being addictive, a drug. He uses almost the whole day and it seems like everybody has to use electronics everyday because of the advantage of being able to communicate and surfing the web. He said we can't live without it and use the electronics all the time and mostly everywhere.

Edit on: 9/26/2009

Friend:

Being born in the digitalization period, how does the technology and electronics affect how you spend your time?

She answered that she have to practically use it everyday like anybody else because she has to communicate with others. She has to use it for homework where she doesn't have to read from the book because the internet has pages of the text she needs to read. And in her free time to download and listen to music or watch videos and chatting with her friends. She said she "basically use it (digital) to communicate". She feels easier with having electronics around her than not having it because we are so use to it and we need to do things on it on the computer or the phone to accomplish a lot of our tasks.