Have you ever thought
what the internet and modern digital technology role plays in your life? As the
world evolves and becomes more advanced, technology has become integrated to
society. Without it, human kind cannot advance anymore and will be at a
standstill. After researching the topic about modern digital technology and if
it harms or helps people, a conclusion can be made that the benefits of modern
technology outweighs the disadvantages. Why
you may ask?
Firstly,
technology, or more specific, the internet has greatly helped businesses of
this era. Generally, businesses now rely on the internet for their promotion.
Without the internet, many of their current customers may not even know of
their business. This means that the survivability rate of business has gone up
many times since the internet has been founded. Don’t think that there are only
a few people in the internet. There are millions of people
in the internet that want to shop online, for their own convenience, of course.
Those businesses that think that there won’t be any profit in selling their
products online are terribly wrong.
Another
benefit that technology, or to be more specific, social media, is that it
gives us the option of a faster and more convenient way of communication.
Social Media and smart phones are two types of Medias that help us to
communicate to those that are far away from us. When we don’t have these things, then
communicating with others will be that much harder. To illustrate, when a
person living in Indonesia wants to talk to their sister in say, Melbourne, he
will probably use the Facebook chat or Skype. This is because these two are
ready available and practical to use. No longer would we have to directly go to
the person in order to talk to them.
Now,
some people may say that media will take our information and sell them. The
internet will forever have our information and everyone in the world can know
who we are. It’s not just celebrities who have to be careful now; we normal
people have to be on guard also now. This point is true; however why bother
giving crucial information like our address? We can just put in the necessary
information without revealing ALL of our information. If worst comes to worst,
just make false information. And when we talk to someone and we think that they
are trustworthy, just give him/her your real information. “Media is just media.
, The message is controlled by people who use a media. However, we just have to
learn how to use new media such as smart phones and social media that connects
anyone other wise media becomes harmful” (Langkamp,
2013).
Last
but not least, technology can help people to gain more knowledge, through the use
of the powerful search engine, Google. In the past, people would open a book,
dictionary, or an encyclopedia in order to gain knowledge or search a word or
something. However, with the emergence of Google, or Yahoo, our searching is
eased by a thousand fold. We can just type a keyword to the box and BOOM! We
can get the definition of the word, the history, and et cetera. Google has
practically everything. Ranging from food, books, exotic stuffs, weird stuffs,
anything! That is the marvel of the device known as search engine “Google”. We
can benefit from this because it makes our life so much easier. To research a
topic, learn about something, study about a certain thing. In the past, most
college students must go to the library and research multiple books, but all
that are in the past. Today, we can just search the internet. However, it is
true that the internet can sometimes contain some fraudulent information, therefore
be sure to check if it’s true or not.
In
conclusion, I believe that modern digital media helps people and not just harms
them. The benefit outweighs the negatives. Some examples of the benefits are as
I have stated before: helping businesses, convenient communication and for
searching. We have to move
on forward and use technology to our advantage.
