My Digital Life

Hi this is Pauly.

Since my home introduced a computer at 1998, I entered the new era in the after decade.
Over this decade, the digital world boomed much faster than I expected.
However, my digital footprint always slower than people running after the new.

When the IT fever was splashed over in 1999, I started to use internet before the end of 20th Century.

When the city entered to the broadband transferring, I was still using 56Kbps modem till 2005.

When people taking millions of photos using DCs, I was still using a second-hand camera.
When people going mad with iPhone and iPad, I still using Nokia 5130 for low quality photo and MP3

Not running after the new, but I get addict to the internet, looping in different platforms like MSN, Facebook, Twitter. Each day I spend about four to five hours in internet, surfing aroung various forums, chatrooms, weblogs. Although the number of websites is not so much, I surf them in a cycle, this forum, that chatroom, those blog, forum again, blog again, chatroom......and looping around.

As the generation X a lot of information booming around us, and the world tends to multi-modal. You can get news animation from Apple Action News, visiting latest music video from Youtube, replaying yesterday's drama from Tudou etc......

Although I am not going so deep in this digital world, the change in the reality actually raised different questions about the relationship between human and technology, also for the identity.

Throughout this course "Language in digital media", I can understand myself again, from surviving in this digital era to the new literacy of learning online discourse.

Looking forward to the future topics!!