Alternative title: How I Use Digital Media in My Life Everyday

I’m surrounded. I have computers to my left and right. I’m on facebook, myspace, livejournal and now wordpress! I’ve got a cell phone, a lap top, a digital camera, a digital recorder, a scanner and no life! HAHa. Well, I use things things in my life everyday socially and also, sometimes as a creative outlet, or for my personal expression (journaling).

Am I technologically savvy? The answer is no. I suppose it’s relative when according to an informative in class youtube video “Did you know 2.0” a lot of four year olds are on probably just as much as I am. Everyday, I email. That is something to depend on. In these crazy times, no one is available during the times that I am, and when they are, it’s an in-person encounter or they’re hanging out with someone else, and default to email! To me it’s somewhat antiquated when I have been using it for a majority of my life and now there is affordable text messaging, handheld computer phones and everybody instant messaging. What was lightning fast (email) is now relatively slow in comparison to IM.

I will not yield. I will not make it my life and I will step away from the computer. Though that doesn’t allow me to escape it entirely when everyone else is still plugged in. It’s like that Keanu Reaves movie The Matrix where when I step outside of digital media, I find the population of “aware” people to be much smaller.