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So many question arises after my lecture and apparently I wanted to tweet about it… But thought why not express it as a blog post instead…

I was wondering if I was actually sitting in an IT class or a Psychology class. But realise that I was actually learning how IT is affecting one Psychologically. First question, is IT a master or a tool? Are we dominating it or it’s dominating us… Actually it is still debatable and it’s according to what kind of aspect it’s coming from? Do we know that we are actually going through a phase of first life and second life?

Coming back to my first qn. Are we too dependable to IT? I’m currently travelling in the bus and almost all the people who are standing around me are having a smart phone/tablet. Can you name someone who doesn’t own a smart phone? Or at least a mobile phone? How would you actually react to a situation when you asked someone for their number and they tell you that they do not own one? Quoting from my lecturer; one also actually feels like a “cold turkey” without having their mobile phones around. For eg. Like a smoker who suddenly stop smoking. True indeed. These days people are in a “Always On” mode. So how does it affect One’s life. I would definitely argue that there are pros and cons because of IT.

First let’s go with the pros. Everything to do with our daily life requires IT. Be it work, school, entertainment, relationships et.al.. It became another key point in our life, like water, food and air. Having to be working and studying, I communicate with my colleagues through email. We have several systems around us to refer to and work with. There were point of time we can’t finish a particular job without accessing that particular system we need to use. As for my studies, My lecturer send us notes through email. We have a learning system to refer to our references/online libraries and do Submissions of assignments online. IT is very much advanced that, even when you are sending an email to someone, it is as same as sending a SMS to them as now smart phones have push services. Everything is fast-paced in Technology. Things are done fast using technology. We can work/study on the go. like this I can go on and so forth..

Now to the cons, when was the last time we actually wrote something using a pen and paper? At least a paper long??? During our school/college days? After that what happens? Everything is done via computer. Well at least for me, I feel that I can actually type faster than I write. Can you believe that I can’t even write something now? I found myself struggling to take down notes and end up typing notes?? Isn’t it amusing that, a day without your mobile, is like a day being retarded? Just imagining myself? How would one feel or what happens if you forgets you mobile phone? Have you ever wonder how does it actually affects ur mind. Have you ever been mentally affected? Do you find yourself being moody or frustrated without your device?
During my school days, whenever I travel out with my family or friends, I would always bring along a story book so that I can read while travelling. Or else I would be chit chatting with the people who are with me. More direct communication were involved. Nowadays children are using iPhone to play games. Children owning a smartphone at a very young age. In several occasions, I’ve noticed parents whom are always involved with their career wherever they go, and let their children be with their own gadgets. I got mh first mobile phone I was a teenager? My main purpose to have a mobile phone was to be contactable. But now, from contacting to smsing to emailing to e-shopping to every other daily life things are being done with a small device.

There are several examples which can be listed on how it affects/helps in One’s life.

Wrapping up : Even though I feel it’s unfinished post; as I had several things to share but unable to do it due to time constraint. My conclusion is; the more technology is getting advanced, the more people are getting busy. The more people getting busy, the more people are lagging in their personal life. Having being lagging in personal life, there are plenty of fallbacks in One’s life. Basically personal life becomes a computer life. How I wish I could say that, we can have limitations when it comes technology but how can we, when now everything is about technology? That’s how life have become…. As much as we want to say that we dominate IT, we have to eventually accept that IT actually dominates us.

PS : I hope I could share more in the near future about first life and second life and how are actually people psychologically driven to it.