OOO A TOPIC

Now that I’ve explored several areas of technology and courtship, it’s time to narrow it down. Although I feel it will be a hard topic to research, I think that facebook and myspace are the topics most pertinent to our age and time.

One article I found I feel makes a great statement about or age group and the effects of facebook on us.

http://chronicle.com/jobs/2006/01/2006012301c.htm

“Increasingly, however, our networks are being used to entertain members of "the Facebook Generation" who text-message during class, talk on their cellphones during labs, and listen to iPods rather than guest speakers in the wireless lecture hall.”

I think this description is absolutely perfect of our age group. I think our obsession with technology to entertain us has led to the importance of facebook in our daily lives. Walking around campus, it’s hard to find someone who isn’t carrying a laptop, listening to an ipod, or talking on a cell phone.

“Christine Rosen believes that "those who run institutions of higher learning have embraced technology as a means of furthering education. But they have failed to realize that the younger generation views technology largely as a means of delivering entertainment -- be it music, video games, Internet access, or television -- and secondarily, as a means of communicating."

"Technology," she adds, "also provides new and unusual ways to isolate oneself from opinions or ideas that make us uncomfortable, from people who we would rather not have to know, from those often-awkward social interactions with strangers in public spaces. In the college context this is more worrisome since part of the purpose of a liberal education is to expose students to ideas that challenge them to think in new ways and expose them to things that they hadn't known about before."

Both these people quoted in this article successfully depict the focus of our generation on technology. I think Christine Rosen’s comment of technology being a means of communication that helps one avoid uncomfortable situations helps to explain why facebook is so important to us in courtship.