Digital Age...

Digital Age...

The internet today is separated into loads of different segments. The internet has revolutionised the way that everything now is being done. From new phones coming out to new computers and also that to new websites being formed near enough every day. The internet I believe is slowly swallowing our lives. 

With phones, we can be integrated like never before, if someone doesn’t reply back to a text, we can simply go onto FaceBook and see when they were last online, go look at their Twitter feed and know that they were indeed ignoring you. 

We can send pictures like never before by apps like Snapchat. These are interesting and good for teenagers and young adults and even the older generation has gotten on the Snapchat hype, however, it is bad in some cases like when people’s sent images were backlogged and shared online.

An even scarier thing occurred when people who sent ‘nudes’ to people, these were also being shared online. It proves that yes the internet may be a great thing but it also proves how scary the world of the internet is. 

I remember what it was like getting a computer for the first time in my use, knowing everything on the computer even before my parents. I and my brother would be on the computer or watching TV when we came home from school. I remember having to show my dad how to specific computer programmes which now feels strange to say that when I was roughly maybe 10 or even younger that I knew how to use a computer before my dad did. 

I remember my mum got me a programme called Mavis Beacon, which was a programme to help you type fast and get to learn how the keyboard works and how to type without even looking at the keys. 

I loved doing this because I thought it was something really clever and something that would be put to good use.

Also, coming back to social media we also have the new app of Instagram. This is another interesting thing which has become very well acquainted with the likes of teenagers, young adults and also adults. 

Another thing to note is that my generation is the first, for our children to look at our social media networks and literally laugh at how we were as children, young adults and adults. I find this a litter worrying and also rather scary. I don’t want them judging my selfies from when I was 19!