Our names are CyBones, Cyber Lazybones

Technology Era is coming. After the industrial revolution, we relied more on machines, technologies and even computers. We are all addicts on text messages, smartphones, social networks etc. Technologies are sometimes as an extension of our certain abilities, i.e. new affordances, but it can let us lost the primary abilities too. For the origin of technology, we invent to alter a better life, bringing an improvement of human being. For the past few years, it seems that we are being reversely controlled by technologies.

For any new items, we can justify if it can change our life, resolving the existing problems. For example, mobile phones allow us to communicate with others almost instantly, instead of a delayed communication of letters or telegraphs. Computers helped us to do more tasks that may be time consuming in paper based history. These technologies actually do the good for us.

However, when this technology developed to be too powerful, that it has been beyond our need in actual life, it will become a tool that discharging our lazy mind, because of the deep reliance on a particular item. Yet we use mobile phones everyday for communication. But what do we use phones for? Text messages, cameras, music players, web browsers etc. Those functions has come beyond our origin of verbal communicating with others. Phones are no longer our tools for contact, but a tool for recreation. We have an extension of our speech through phones, but it gradually restrainted our ability for face-to-face communication.

No doubt computer helped us to do much "Mission Impossible" tasks, and also the possibles. But our abiltiy of writing had been handicapped by using too much keyboards. We now do not consider computer as a tool, but more relying on it as part of our body. Are we controlling computer commands, or the technology giving commands to us?

Science fictions always indicated human being overtaken by machines, because of the reliance. But I believe that our mind are superior than the mindless machines. We should rethink our role in this technology age, and know how to handle computers as our assistants, but not our "Masters"

Everyone Facebook Addicted

I joined Facebook in late 2007, for over two years. Till now I always spend over two hours each day on Facebook. Although I haven't got smartphones to keep on status, I refreshed time to time on my computer, just for updates in the homepage.

In my first year using Facebook, what I know about it is only "add friends", "write posts" or "posting photos", just like what I do in MSN or blogging. Gradually I found my old friends and even primary classmates in Facebook, and I began addicted in this social network site. I played different games like online quiz, happy farm or psychology tests; I tagged photos and leave comments among my friends; I join my friends' event or organising gathering through facebook etc.

Some people may have a lot of friends, that may have a number of FB accounts because others are full. One of my company's star tutor claimed he has 4 accounts of full 5000 friends i.e. 20000 friends. Some of my classmates began to ask me "Why only 234 friends, you have not expose enough."

I haven't got a analysis on my friends list, till I met Friend Wheel apps. Kindly it helps me to group my friends and form a simple graph of the connections.

For the upper half are my friends in the same secondary school, and the lower one are ones of meeting in this four years of university life.

For honest, this is an alarm to me. I don't add friends that I don't know. The wheel reveals my life encircled by WahYanites (secondary life) and CityU buddies. Both of them are strong bonding groups and having a limitation to my future life. For the lower half, it is not stronger than the upper one; but I can find it become strengthening and the area will be totally filled with colours if no other action is taken.








My classmates are somehow right. My approach to meet FB friends have a room of improvement. Maybe I can create more weak ties to different groups, in addition to just two large strong groups. The first priority to this approach is the action in reality. Let's ACT NOW!!!!