A lot has changed since the article Pencils to Pixels was written. The list is endless. As I stated in my previous post, technology has just exploded in these recent years. Now, we have Smartphones that can do just about anything, we have portable laptops that can practically fold down to fit inside a pocket, we have Google, which allows us to know anything about everything at the touch of a finger. I can go on and on.
To go even further with the internet, I think about social media and how that has impacted our world greatly. Today, everywhere we go, we see things like "Like us on Facebook", or "Follow us on Twitter", or "Post a picture of us on Instagram." People are almost forced to join social media because that's just the norm now. That's how people communicate and network. Some one who doesn't have a Facebook or Twitter account seems strange to the rest of the world. I have heard people say, "What do you mean you don't have Facebook? Who doesn't have a Facebook these days?" I know a lot of people that can't go a day without signing onto their Facebook.
It's just crazy to see what people value these days and how they spend their extra time. In a lot of my previous Writing Arts courses we talk a lot about how the act of actually sitting down and reading a book isn't so common anymore. People are too busy being "click happy" and surfing the web, or checking their email, or posting on social media.
Sometimes I sit back and think what has this world come to? Where are the days before social media, and are we ever going to get them back?