Homework 3

Our generation definitely does view events through a screen rather than watching the actual event.  When people go to concerts, they would rather film the show on their phone and watch it through there rather than put their phone away and just enjoy the show.  I love going to concerts and I am guilty of this too.  I think we do this because we have the capability and we want to be able to watch it again.  The problem with this is that we don’t really appreciate or soak in the event we are watching.  It’s nice to be able to watch it again, but maybe we wouldn’t have to watch it again if we really focused on the event while it happened.  Another example is snapchat.  When we’re with friends we record and take pictures on snapchat to put on our snapchat stories.  We do this so that other people see them and see that we’re having fun.  Instead we should just be enjoying these moments with our friends, not filming them.

The author of this article made some good points.  The first I want to address is her point on “Nothing exists if it is not recorded digitally.”  This is very true to our generation.  That is why sites like Instagram and snapchat have become so popular.  We have to document everything that happens to us and post it.  A saying that has become popular today is “pics or it didn’t happen” which is why people are constantly uploading things that happen to them onto social media. 

Another point I liked was her point about how our eyes have become used to stimulating material, things that move and have bright colors.  She points out that we are bored by paintings because they aren’t moving like the phones we constantly have in our hands.  This is very true.  For example, black and white films.  Our generation does not like older films where they’re black and white because we have to have color.  We think no color is boring.  Our eyes have become so used to visually stimulating material.