Identify Yourself

This blog was a very distracting, yet interesting, blog. It was very unique in the sense that it had that weird column scroll on the right side that was a little confusing at times. While reading I did not really understand what the point of the right column was at first and then I thought that maybe it was about the same topic as the section next to it just from a slightly different perspective. Then again maybe I'm completely wrong. This article, to me, was about technology being associated with our everyday lives and how we can do pretty much nothing to prevent it from taking control. Krystal South goes on and on about how our lives become so intertwined with technology that things we don't even mean to put on the internet can appear there without us ever knowing they existed. This could include pictures or very personal information about yourself.

I analyzed the section titled LIFE=GAME and GAME=LIFE. I play computer games a lot so this was one of the sections that interested me most. I tend to play video games mostly involving soccer and I have never really played Sims all that much. But I do know people who are obsessed with playing the game and know that it can pretty much take control of their lives completely. They tend to live out their wildest dreams in the game instead of taking the time to pursue the dreams in real life. They think they cannot do it without even attempting to try and decide that it would be better if they just pretended to live out their goals in a video game. To me this seems like a way of escaping their reality because they don't think very highly of themselves. In the section GAME=LIFE South is telling us about how she escapes her troubles by playing video games. This goes along with my theory about people taking the easy way out and playing out their lives through video games instead of going out and actually doing things. She also compared how playing against real people in video games can relate to the real world as well. You need to constantly think about new ideas and evolve new strategies to get through gaming situations.

Overall, I enjoyed this reading because it  can relate to almost everyone on the planet. Our lives are constantly being affected by technology whether we want them to be or not. Technology is something that people born after our generation grew up with from the time they were born. Eventually our lives may end up being just one big simulation in a game and we won't even have to get up our of our chair from the basement in our parents' house.