How Computers Affect Our Lives

After reading this article. It made me think about how much I use the computer myself as well as how our generation uses it. This past summer I was able to attend a three day camping trip where you left all technology behind and was just one with nature. My college hosted it and it was called ECHO. During this entire time, funny moments would happen and on the first day I constantly wished I had my cell phone so I could tweet a quote from it. Why did I want to do this? Well, my generation has this addiction called FOMO. FOMO is the Fear Of Missing Out, which explains why we tweet our funny moments, take the perfect picture for Instagram, and are sure to update our facebook profile pictures with a picture of us at college with our friends. We are used to giving little status updates with growing up with Microsoft Powerpoint where we were instructed to give just the facts and not explain everything on the powerpoint slide. We've been raised to just give minimalistic information which is why we get bored while reading something super long. Reading Sherry Turkle's article really made me reflect on how my generation almost depends on technology in order to stay in the loop and helps me realize my parents complaining about my computer usage isn't all that crazy.