Nathan Jurgenson, The IRL Fetish
This article talks about how the new technology of smartphones, social media has taken over the real life. He talks about how everywhere we go, either ourselves or the person we are with is bound to go on their phones and start tapping away. He even shifts the subject to see that even when we are “online” in our social media, that just means we are “not offline”. The technology that we have has changed the way we use social media where social media is starting to merge within real life itself. I personally see where Jurgenson’s point stems from. But it is also hard to see because my whole life I have been face to face with new technology. The generation that I’m in is the first to be so stuck with our technology that I am curious to see how future generations will be like. Even when I am not directly on my phone looking at apps like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, the people I follow and the app still goes on without me. And when I am on, I can still see what I missed with the small time I was off, so it feels like I have not ever left the app when I signed on last. Not even signed on, we just leave our profiles logged on and with just a click, we are back on. We never officially “log out”. Even people who decide to quit, unless they thoroughly delete their profile, their content is still present. It is actually rare to find someone without any social media at all because it is so hard to be “in the loop” with people when everything is online now.
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