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I Used To Be A Human Being

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I Used to Be a Human Being: An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has

rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.

Do you see the constant stream of content as beneficial?

With every invention on invention, the first generation that comes into contact with a new

invention grapples with ways of accommodating it into their lives in such a manner that is not

destructive. The same is happening with information technology and the internet. The content

that people are coming into contact with today owing to the invention of the smartphone is

extraordinarily big. It is, therefore, no wonder that people have deemed content to be harmful

and curtailing the conventional forms of relaying information, human contact. However, one can

also look at it differently. Although the same content is responsible for cutting people away from

each other and hampering human contact, it is because of this information that innovation is

possible. The content being streamed today will make it possible for new ways to be invented of

addressing social issues. It would be deceptive for someone to claim to be completely cut off and

not benefitting from content. It is possible for people to access news and information

immediately, give feedback and communicate faster than it was in the last decade. The

smartphone has enabled people to be in contact with one another and offer the concept of instant

gratification. When the cable TV was invented, people were concerned that a lot of time would

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be spend in front of the TV making it impossible for people to do anything constructive.

However, society always finds a way to adjust, which will happen with the information age.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by SM?

Yes, in more ways than one social media can be overwhelming. It is not possible to go

more than two hours without logging in on Facebook, retweeting a resonating thought, liking or

posting a photograph on Instagram or a story on Snapchat. All this information coming in can be

overwhelming. It is not easy to put away all gadgets away and pretend that that is not equally

overwhelming. Taking in all the information on social media is overwhelming. It is, however,

more overwhelming to cut yourself off from the information and purport to live in an

unconnected world. What one can do is try to be disciplined on how much content they are

willing to take in per day.

How would you handle "detoxing" yourself from SM?

Social media is an aspect of life today that seems to be taking over people’s lives. The

amount of time spent on social media is worrying. People have come up with ways of

‘detoxifying’ themselves from social media. Some people jog, meditate, exercise, taking trips to

out of range locations and generally being disciplined enough to stay away from social media out

of one’s volition. This has proven to be difficult considering almost all millennials are connected

to the internet and swiping on Tinder, posting a story or tweeting something every minute. To be

the only one not doing these things requires a lot of self-control and discipline. I have come up

with a way of ‘detoxifying’ from social media by creating a personal timetable. Although it is

difficult to adhere to, I am on social media for thirty minutes at most every day. Fifteen minutes

in the morning and an additional fifteen in the evening. During the day, I have conditioned

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SURNAME 1 Student: Professor: Course: Date: I Used to Be a Human Being: An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too. Do you see the constant stream of content as beneficial? With every invention on invention, the first generation that comes into contact with a new invention grapples with ways of accommodating it into their lives in such a manner that is not destructive. The same is happening with information technology and the internet. The content that people are coming into contact with today owing to the invention of the smartphone is extraordinarily big. It is, therefore, no wonder that people have deemed content to be harmful and curtailing the conventional forms of relaying information, human contact. However, one can also look at it differently. Although the same content is responsible for cu ...
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