The first time I saw WWW was on my father’s Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. As far as my photographic memory goes, it was a white screen with blue and green URLs.
My sister and I had a personal computer to use at home. We weren’t allowed to access the internet; we had CDs in school textbooks that had interactive software to study and play lessons, and that was YouTube for us then. Most of my time went to playing with Microsoft Turtle and making stickers with our printer (I miss him).
When my sister got her first phone, I was only allowed to use Messenger with my friends (though they had their parents’ phones), but I here and there clicked on Facebook and Snapchat on her phone. She was mad.
Then, there was a time jump. I was 13 and got my first email, impressed to have my full name on it as my ID (I kind of hate it now). I made an account on all the social media apps and then, after 2 months, deleted them all. I remember this clearly because I had the same people on my Instagram, the same group on Snapchat, and the same on TikTok and Pinterest, and we did the same thing, talked, and exchanged the same memes and the same topic, just different mediums.
Then COVID-19, higher classes, longer Zoom classes, prescribed glasses, and I just hated the internet. During this time, I also got my laptop, and I feel it was worth the spending.
Last year, I got my first personal phone; yes, it was an iPhone, and it was more of a sensible buy than a Christmas wish list. And I don’t think I want to exchange any of this for a flip phone. I would rather not search for an illegal website to download an MP3 song every time I want to play it.
I think the main problem with social media is our social circle. There is too much content and too many people. People are way too interested in others’ lives, like everyone’s life. They have more than 200 subscribed channels on YouTube. Like during cable TV, how many channels does one subscribe to? I remember pleading with my mom for Disney Plus and Disney XD, and it was always only one, and my dad used to get more than 2 news channels for “different perspectives.”
I feel moderation is the only control one can have over this and ask questions: What purpose does it have? What does this particular app do? Are you just on it because your friends are on it or your followers are on it? Is it for validation? Yes, then uninstall it for good.
Another 2006-born
The first time I saw WWW was on my father’s Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. As far as my photographic memory goes, it was a white screen with blue and green URLs.
My sister and I had a personal computer to use at home. We weren’t allowed to access the internet; we had CDs in school textbooks that had interactive software to study and play lessons, and that was YouTube for us then. Most of my time went to playing with Microsoft Turtle and making stickers with our printer (I miss him).
When my sister got her first phone, I was only allowed to use Messenger with my friends (though they had their parents’ phones), but I here and there clicked on Facebook and Snapchat on her phone. She was mad.
Then, there was a time jump. I was 13 and got my first email, impressed to have my full name on it as my ID (I kind of hate it now). I made an account on all the social media apps and then, after 2 months, deleted them all. I remember this clearly because I had the same people on my Instagram, the same group on Snapchat, and the same on TikTok and Pinterest, and we did the same thing, talked, and exchanged the same memes and the same topic, just different mediums.
Then COVID-19, higher classes, longer Zoom classes, prescribed glasses, and I just hated the internet. During this time, I also got my laptop, and I feel it was worth the spending.
Last year, I got my first personal phone; yes, it was an iPhone, and it was more of a sensible buy than a Christmas wish list. And I don’t think I want to exchange any of this for a flip phone. I would rather not search for an illegal website to download an MP3 song every time I want to play it.
I think the main problem with social media is our social circle. There is too much content and too many people. People are way too interested in others’ lives, like everyone’s life. They have more than 200 subscribed channels on YouTube. Like during cable TV, how many channels does one subscribe to? I remember pleading with my mom for Disney Plus and Disney XD, and it was always only one, and my dad used to get more than 2 news channels for “different perspectives.”
I feel moderation is the only control one can have over this and ask questions: What purpose does it have? What does this particular app do? Are you just on it because your friends are on it or your followers are on it? Is it for validation? Yes, then uninstall it for good.