Writing is a technology. Is the machine using us?
In the past decade, technology and the internet have become large entities in daily life. They are more or less, a machine. It's creepy to think that every time we search, tag, post, tweet, or blog we are teaching the machine. An anthropologist from Kansas seems to think that it is this machine that is controlling us. I like to think instead, that the internet is connecting people. I do think that people become too obsessed with the world wide web, constantly updating facebook and tweeting numerous times throughout the day. However, it allows you to stay in contact with far-away friends and long-lost family members. With current technology, going away never really means going that far. With skype and facebook, everyone is just 1 click away. Technology is not so much controlling us, but rather making goodbyes less and less sentimental.
I think that this was good. I like how you did accept the fact that there was a problem with people becoming obsessed but instead focused on how it is beneficial
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