When studying media I had no doubt in my mind the assessments would be related to technology so a blog was no surprise, however as dubious as this sounds I feel more disconnected when writing blog posts than when I do in a diary. I had my first blog in year eight, it was really about sharing pictures I had taken and like many teenagers my age It was on the social platforming sit ‘Tumblr’. As I grew older as a digital native I found there were things that got to me that shouldn’t have- they were caused by social media and I knew this. The fact that one of my friends wasn’t able to call me as the idea of a phone call gave her such anxiety yet she could always type out how she felt, she then told me it was because it felt more ‘natural’ to her, the Irony as It seemed unnatural to me.
I love media and technology but in terms of connection I believe it can really put a divide between how close you think you are to someone and how close you really are. I wrote in a dairy I would sometimes let the people closest to me read it, with a blog its generally everyone or no one, I use to change the privacy settings so that only the people closest to me could find it but it still wasn’t nearly the same.
I find it strange looking back onto eighties films where the main character would be chained to the wall by a phone when talking to someone whereas now it’s chained to a computer, I think loneliness is increased by technology I’m very keen to learn about how mental illness plays a role in media I really hope sometime to touch on that. I personally can feel more lonely online talking to everyone as really when I am sometimes I’m alone in a room.
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