Identifying a digital culture on which you have changed your mind on during this course

Throughout the module of digital cultures, it was in my best interest to cover a variety of issues relating to the digital world and how it has a great affect on our lives. Now I have completed  a great deal of research, I have taken some time to analyse the points I made previously and comment on how I have in fact significantly changed my mind in comparison to my initial response.
 

The digital world itself appears to be fascinating and you could scrutinize different responses continuously and still not get bored for a long period of time. In my personal opinion, the most significant response that shocked me hugely was the influence the internet has on the majority of our lives in general. It came to my attention that when commenting on the structure of Web 2.0 and the different aspects of tagging, that without realising we will connect with the internet various times daily. Connecting to the internet doesn’t necessarily mean sitting at home on a laptop or computer and searching various ideas, but we connect to the internet using mobile phones, going through security and walking down the street through CCTV. While I found this astonishing, I did in fact, find how much we rely on the internet more concerning. Whilst commenting on usage of the internet, I realised that we often create searches we have done before, or searches for answers we deep down already know.

This reliance on the internet is unhealthy and avoids us using our basic knowledge to answer questions or queries we have. I will openly admit that I often search things I have previously searched and do too adapt a sense of laziness and search something that I will most probably already know. As a country this reflects our personalities a great deal, the use of the internet is portraying us to be a lazy nation. The majority of people have easy access to the internet and with this in mind it becomes the easiest option to quickly search something, instead of tracking back in our minds and working it out.

This concept came as a surprise to me, I was unaware of how we really did rely on the internet and the statistics of how much it is used daily came as a shock. Even though I am a culprit for using the internet when I don’t necessarily need to, when analysing usage I still was left shocked. To conclude, after a lot of in depth research on this point, I have significantly changed my opinion on relying on the internet compared to my naïve and oblivious approach to begin with.