Week 3 - Activity 2

The Purpose of this blog entry is to discuss my personal use of new communication technologies in everyday life as a means of communicating with family and friends. Im a big fan of communication technology and use it a great deal on an everyday basis.

From simple phone conversations (both home and mobile) to text messaging, emails and online chatting, chances are im using at least one if not all of these methods of communication everyday and for most people like myself have been using these methods ever since early teenage years. Social networking plays a big role in the implemmentation and usage of some of these methods in that a lot of kids will want mobile phones and want use networking websites and applications such as 'MSN messager' and 'myspace' to contact and interact with their friends. I myself am an example of this, the social interaction lured me into these things at a young age and the continuing development of these ideas and introduction of many new concepts will always spark my interest.


I believe that as technology is improving, the age of which we access most of these things is becoming lower and lower e.g in my family my younger brother got his first mobile phone a few years younger than i was when i first got mine and i believe this would be a common trend in most house holds simply because this technology is increasing expected to be a part of most peoples lives, even young teenagers and even more so as the years pass by. Who knows maybe in ten years time the first thing a new born baby gets thrust into their little hands isnt a bottle or a rattle, but a mobile phone! hahaha lets hope it doesnt get to that!


I would say that i have acquaintances that i have met on the net one way or another, but would'nt call them friends. Anyone I consider to be my friend i make a point of knowing who they are in person. I think relationships that are face to face and those that are web based are very different because you have a much better idea of who your dealing with when meeting in person appose to presuming and making assumptions over the internet. It is also important to take into account how important details in communication are non-exsistant in web based communication such as; tone of voice, body language, expression etc these are now replaced by quirky sounds and 'emoticons' and also the change in spelling and grammer in instant messaging e.g "wat doin l8r.wanna go 2dat movie from yday.cod b a larf?wb" which can be fun and sometimes time consuming (if you are an excellent de-coder) but do they really convey the true ideals and meaning of communication...i think not...

Thanks for taking the time and interest
**MattyC**