When you think of intimacy and computers, you think negative
for the most part. That is not the case at all, in fact the internet has
increased intimacy. When you think of intimacy, you think of boyfriend,
girlfriend, wife husband. This is not always the case; you can have friendships
that are intimate, because that person knows everything about you. Sometimes
your job takes you away from home and makes you move places that are far away ,
but the internet lets you stay close with that friend. There are computer
programs out there that let you see the other person through the computer, like
Skype, Facebook and so on. This is the same with family numbers that have to
move away for some reason or another .
You can use the internet to stay intimate with them. Now you see a big push in online
dating. This leads to people starting intimate relationships over the internet,
which we have not really seen ever before. One out of every five relationships
that are being started were started on the internet.You can become Intimate
with people all around the world now. This is linking people together, that if
it wasn’t for the internet would have never met. Next time you think of the
internet and intimacy, you should look at it in a positive note.
I enjoyed reading your post. You touched on many good points by associating intimacy and computers. For example being able to Skype. I love Skype because even if you have family and friends living miles away it brings them close to you. It makes the miles that separate you not seem so bad and helps enhance relationships. There are indeed many positives to this.
ReplyDeleteThere is also alot of information out there on the internet and as withanything else we should educate our children how to make choices to avoid potentially dangerous situations. This can happppen with any progression of technical devices. I am not trying to be negative, it's just important to be cautious and safe.
Your comment completely supports the Internet, more or less social media. From what I’ve seen of the other posts, you’re one of the few that fully support it. Most others have said that it is both good and bad. I like that your feel strongly one way and are not on the fence. You’re right, things like Skype are really nice to have. The Internet can really help people that are miles apart stay close, or even start new close relationships. My only problem with your comment is your little statistic. You don’t cite it at all, so why should anyone believe that it’s true? That’s just me being nit-picky though! =) Good job being on one side of the fence.
ReplyDeleteI believe that you make a great point by saying when you think about intimacy you initially think of relationships but I never really thought about friends and other things as such. The internet has allowed for us to be connected and allowed us to stay in touch. I believe this is a great thing for us as a society. This makes thing a lot easier for us to accomplish things in a professionally world. I like how you brought up about people dating from all over the world this is something that we have never done and weren't able to do. But with all of the new sites and apps we are able to reach many different groups and types of people.
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