Blog 4= Computers and Communication

From generation to generation the way people communicate changes tremendously. My grandparents use to always write letters, or even make personal visits that were sometimes lengthy trips for the day. My parents depended on the telephone. Today, I depend on the internet for communication. It is interesting to see this vast change in the means of communication overtime.
About a couple times a month, my dad will always ask me to look online to find something for him. Sometimes this could be annoying, but more so I find it interesting how the internet is not what is familiar to him. He wasn’t raised on the internet. Its weird how through the invention of technology, like phones and computers, make such a drastic change in the way people communicate.
Today, my siblings and my friends we use instant messaging to chat with friends, and e-mail. Just today I was thinking about all of my e-mails from teachers at school. I was just amazed. I wonder how professors use to contact their students when computers and the internet didn’t exist. I love being able to contact whom ever I want right at my fingertips. Through college I have taken advantage of this quite a bit.
I do wish though those computers weren’t so influential in people’s lifestyles. I wish I had what my grandparents had. For example, to just walk a mile to visit someone and talk would be ideal for me. Also, my sisters all they do is sit on the Internet. I don’t like this because they abuse the advantages of having computers. If it weren’t for Myspace they would be lost.
It’s interesting to see how with the introduction of technology, customs of the means of peoples communication changes. It’s weird how some means of communication would be favorable for me that was of generations years ago.