Journal 16

This project is a type of experiment to see how well we can work without see or even knowing the people in our group. This makes us extremely dependent on the Internet and computer access and hoping that people will respond in a timely manner. We can use email and cell phones to communicate what needs to be done and distributed. This experience is a really good way to teach students how to interact among people that we do not know and work together to complete a project. When we get to college we are going to have to work with people who we do not know well and have to work around different schedules and find out how to make it all work out. I can not wait to go to college and I cannot wait till I am done with high school. This new way of social media is dehumanizing in a way because we are not meeting the people and that is isolating people and destroying or human to human relationships. Eventually people are not going to be able to speak because the people are so dependent on technology to communicate their views and thoughts. I like to make posters and do presentations that do not involve technology. We may have to make a todays meet to also keep everyone connected to the project. I do not have a facebook and I do not want one because I do not like the fact that people could know my whole life. What is it with the technology obsession that is making Americans socially dumb in real life. This is why we have dating sites and other social media ways of communication. I kind of wish I lived in the sixties with the sock hops, poodle skirts, and drive in movies. That was a great time in history every one knew each other in the town by talking with them and have a actual conversation and being involved in their community. You should feel more connected to people by seeing them face to face instead of just interacting with them over the Internet they are a person but people are not always the same online as they are in person.