A Two-Edged Sword in the Developement of Human Interaction

In the 21st century, technology, the main driving force behind the productivity, has played a pivotal role in transforming the ways in which we interact. Thus, a spirited debate has risen wheather technological developement is a blessing or a curse to people's relationships. In my opinion, advanced technology provides more negative developments, regardless of some recognized benefits.

It cannot be denied that techmology has influenced our ability to interact in many ways. In term of tiem and space, innovative of inventions, such as mobile phones, bring great efficiency and convinience, gradually eliminating the restrictions of communication with others. Specificially, no matter where the individuals may live and what they do, we can chat to them and exchange ideas with them by making a phone call, which is really quick and easy. More importantly, with access to the internet, we can experience new forms of relationship: online chating and internet social network. Unlike the face to face relationship, online relationship takes shorter time and fewer conditions to establish. Insdead of knowing each other very well, including how he looks and where he lives, sharing the similar ideas well and seemingly suitable personality are rather the key factors.

Of course, it is beneficial for technology to make communications efficient and easy. However, some problems follow after those benefits. With such advanced technology, people tend to spend more time staying at home and sitting in front of computer screen rather than going out to visit friends. As a result, fewer 'true' talks and visits render the relationship fake and full of uncertainties, existing potential cheat and crimes, which will be detrimental to the social safety and security. For instant, some dishonest persons may make use of online chatting to gain your trust and then commit cheating on your money and property.

In conclusion, the state-of-art technology is a two-edged sword, which brings both positive and negative developments of relationships, while such negative ones outweighs the opposite ones. Therefore, it is yet a long way for us to control changing relationships and communications in our daily life.

Rebecca's Whinging Part 1

Socialisation. It seems so simple. I mean it’s just talking to people right? Short of being mute, what’s so difficult? Having suffered with anti

Going to Dictionary.com I found anti-social defined as:-socialism myself it is not a matter of being unable to talk but an inability to form bonds of trust.

1.unwilling or unable to associate in a normal or friendly waywith other people: He's not antisocial, just shy.

2.antagonistic, hostile, or unfriendly toward others; menacing;threatening: an antisocial act.

3.opposed or detrimental to social order or the principles onwhich society is constituted: antisocial behavior.

4.Psychiatry . of or pertaining to a pattern of behavior inwhich social norms and the rights of others are persistently violated.

Note that all of these definitions seem to talk about anti-socialism as if it is the fault of the sufferer. Too many times I’ve had someone tell me ‘Just go talk to them’, ‘Go make friends’ as if it is that easy. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t approach someone without thinking that they they thought I was weird but were too polite to tell me to go away. I could never approach someone because of this.

The other night a movie called Mr.Magorium's Wonder Emporium came on TV and one scene particularly stuck out to me. This young kid named Eric is shunned by the other kids for being kind of eccentric. Anyway in this scene Eric has a talk with his mum.

Mum: We agreed you could come from camp early if you made an effort to make some friends.

Eric: It's not my fault people don't like me.

Mum: People love you- once they get the chance to know you.

Eric: No, they don't. They think I'm weird.

Mum: Because you build sculptures by yourself.

Eric: Because nobody wants to play with me.

Mum: Have you asked anyone to play with you?

Eric: Not really.

Mum: Well, Eric, you have to give people a chance.

Eric: I know what'll happen.

Mum: You don't, sweetheart. Trust me, people are always full of surprises.

And I was watching this scene and thought, THATS ME! People who are anti-social can’t just go up and talk to someone because they just have that feeling that they’ll be rejected.

Y,see my problem was that even when people were polite to my face, I never knew whether they were being sincere, or whether they just messing with me. I had bad experiences with girls in high school who would act friendly and ask me patronising questions and then go and laugh with their friends about the answers I gave. I wonder if they knew I could see them laughing.

Most people are never outright rude. They’ll be snide, they’ll be patronising and they’ll laugh behind your back but they’ll never be sincere.

Experiences

So imagine this...

You walk into a crowded room and instantly eyes are drawn to you. A quick glance and curiosity is clear in that brief nanosecond of visual contact before it is over and everyone minding their own business. However, in that one brief moment an assessment has already been made. 

It is a known fact that first impressions are important and usually have an annoying habit of sticking for the rest of your life. In that small window of opportunity, you are instantly categorised into a social stereotype. Without knowing it you are subject to the critical eye of others before you are even given a chance to introduce yourself. But we have to ask, is our representation of ourselves only skin deep? The ways in which we choose to represent ourselves through brand names, fashion trends and media stereotypes have had a strong influence to the contribution of our identity. Those that do not fit into the “social norm” are instantly viewed upon as different, and therefore strange. The importance in keeping up with social trends has made it so that sometimes we end up losing ourselves. Breaking away from societal trends could cost you the chance at starting new friendships and relationships. 

People crave acceptance from society. However, happiness lies in the acceptance of being truly who you are and not a false misrepresentation that is projected due to societal pressures.

So first impressions are rubbish.

The First Look

So I challenge you to not judge a book by its cover.  

The fact is that the words inside tell a deeper, more meaningful story.

Going against the stream of the current

If you've ever moved to a new city or have been one of those people where you find it difficult to socialise, you find that meeting people is like extracting your own tooth without going to the dentist. It's draining and arduous.
In a big city where there are hundreds and thousands of head roaming on the street and every face seems to enmesh with each other and people become a number rather than individuals without a name; where individuality is subtlety denounced and the only way to truly fit in is through conformity.  Is it not sad that as a collective bunch of the human race, we feel as though we cannot truly be ourselves, due to fear of being ostracized.
So what happens to those who truly stand out and do not fit in at all? whether they are different in appearance, in interest, has a odd way of communicating or just prepared to not conform to societies way of doing things. We cast them as "weird" and give them the run down with our eyes as to say they are not good enough for us to usher a word to them.

What would it feel like if the shoe was on the other foot? and the attack was on us personally. If we were the one that nobody wanted to be friends with and it was you that people gave the up and down look to.
It is rather difficult to imagine a world without friends where you would spend your birthday celebrating it on your own, going out to a cafe and entertaining yourself, and always hanging out with yourself.
In a world where human interaction is almost like learning a second language; it is almost extinct act. We don't make phone calls anymore but send texts and emails and use social networks to catch up with friends. This makes us more and more isolated to the real world.
We feel more and more isolated and children these days do not know how to interact in a sensible manner, and loneliness plagues the western world especially like leprosy.
Thus,there is one elemental truth, everybody has the same needs and despite race or gender and that truth is that fact that we all long to be loved and accepted and simply because someone looks like they are different does not mean that don't want friends, it's hard to try to make friends when one believes that they may be rejected. We were not designed to be on our own.

Introduction to our ISYS 100 blog

Salutation. Our team consists of 4 members contributing to this blog. Justin, Rebecca, Crystal and myself Nutchi.
Our blog will be concentrating on the elements of human interaction and the way people communicate and socialise with each other in society today. We will be blogging about this issue and the team will be their insight and contribute to how they see society around them and the things that make people tick and connect with each other.

We chose this topic due to its prominence in society today, out of curiosity and to shed awareness and insight.

Storyboard

As part of our blog assessment we have to create a storyboard, basically what we want our blog to look like. It took a long time to make but we're happy with it. Expect to see these changes implemented to our blog soon!

We want an overhead banner, with its own background, separate from the rest of the page which contains the title.

We want a solid background for the blog posts so that text can be read easily, so we put in a separate table with the posts that covers up the background.

We want bright colours so that the

text can be easily read but we don't want it to be not garish or overly cheerful.

We want the width of the blog to be large enough so that th

e text is centered on the page or near the center so that it is easier to read, rather than off to the sid

e.

Important information should be off to the side so it can be easily seen, but should be all on one side so that it is neatly organised and visitors know where to look for information.

Side columns should be thin as too much blank space on both sides would look

strange and would squish our blog posts.
Visitors will be reading left to right so we want our posts to be the first thing they see then the Join This Site button.
We want an image background to catch the eyes and make the page look more interesting.

Possible ideas for logo: