Computers with Food for Thought

Has anyone ever thought about how much time they spend in front of the computer? Has anyone wondered how did they do and submit homework in college before scholar and blackboard? How did they take math quizzes and tests before the Math Emporium? How many hours a day are we checking email, Facebook, scholar, blackboard or even chatting on Skype? What happened to MySpace or AIM I hardly hear of people saying MySpace me or IM me, now it is Facebook me or Skype me. Why do we take nouns and turn them into verbs?


I do it too. I spend all day on the computer from doing homework, taking notes in class, skyping people, checking email, listening to Pandora or iTunes, checking Facebook, replying to emails, uploading pictures, submitting class work, taking quizzes, checking grades, etc. Do you think this is making us more self oriented and making words not as personal because there is no more interaction between people, the interaction is through a computer? For example, in you college used to have to write papers on paper and the students would have to go pick up their grades. Now, we submit papers, quizzes, everything online and get them back graded online. We do go to class and listen to a lecture but you are able to take classes online and do the work at your own pace as long as the quiz is submitted by the deadline. Last semester, when I took Linear Algebra I meant and saw my professor once in person and that was the first day of class when we had to go see her. I did not need to go see her so I never did, because of that I lost the interaction between student and teacher.


Students rather play video games on the computer than go outside and play soccer. Typing is not proper exercise. Every college student knows when a new game comes out because the internet slows down dramatically, it is crazy.


It makes me wonder, how did people keep in touch with each other before Facebook and emails? I know there were phones and hand written letters, but hand written letters have the potential of getting lost in the mail and phone calls used to be so expensive. Now people send thousands of text messages a month and do not even own a house phone just a cell.


How did people find jobs and apply to jobs before the internet? Fliers and newspaper. Maybe the internet is away for the world to “go green.” We submit all our work on the internet, we apply to jobs and activities on the internet, receive grades on the internet, and we keep in touch with each other on the internet; maybe this is away for us to reduce the use of paper.


Well I hope all of you are having a great week.