Rough Draft

Digitalization causes people to alienate(brainwashing) themselves from the outside world creating addiction and fostering unhealthy lifestyles. People are absorbed by the technology around them because they are not themselves anymore such as when people were doing their video projects and they alienate themselves causing them to be lifeless monsters. In today's society people are addicted to digital media and obsessed with latest technology just as they do in the book Feed. Society are using digital devices which allows us to become socially challenged and give us an excuse to be lazy which relates to the movie Wall-E. Overall the digital world has a big impact on life today and affects us significantly.

Digital media causes people to leave the real world and enter a place where they become motionless/new person. It causes a person to not know what is going around just what is right in front of the world. The video project that we have done in the past had caused us to be like zombies and we did not realize what the digital things were doing to us such as being so focused on a computer screen or listening to their music etc. Looking at the videos, you see people become so hypnotized by their screens and they switch their minds to different modes which make them to alienate themselves from other things such as errands, work you seem to forget the real world. People are possessed by the screen having not ate for 2 hours and not sleeping for a whole day its as if they leave their body physically and travel to the computer screen causing disembodiment.

Society today has become overly addicted to their digital devices. The book Feed relates to the lifestyle as the digital media today because the story is based on us. Just as teens are listening to their "feeds" and always trying to buy the newest technology. Its kind of like we have a feed ourselves except its in television, cellphones, and other digital devices which we become overly obsessed with. Feed, i believe is a parable of modern teenage life. We do not really think for ourselves and are socially lazy with everything we do. Titus and the other characters in the book besides Violet are addicted to what their Feed tell them to do because they rely on it and use it as a communication for everything just as we do today. Titus looks into his Feed and becomes distant from the world because he watches television in his head, his relationships with his friends and family are nothing more than a digital connection that does carries no emotions. Once Titus's Feed was hacked and he did not what to do with himself he was so used to the Feed
and addicted to it. Its as if he lost his whole life. People are under control of the Feed and are not allowed to think for themselves.

Using these new digital devices it allows us to become socially challenged and give us an excuse to be lazy. People were so disfigured by the technology that when they were left alone they did not know how to find themselves which cause them to have a unhealthy lifestyle. In the movie Wall-E, Wall-E had entered some sort of spaceship where all these people were attached in a chair busy watching a digital screen he accidentally bumped into a lady causing the digital screen to dis attach and turn it off. When this happened the lady was in shock and did not realize her surroundings. She seemed brainwashed, she did not know there was a pool in the premise. She was so distracted by the digital stuff. Previous from that Wall-E had knocked down a man and he was so over weighted he could not get up. The technology was leading them to a harmful habits in life. The robots and the chairs took care of their every need having them not do anything causing them to gain weight. The people have become so depended on them it makes them less worry about other things and focus on themselves. They closed out the rest of the world and care about what is happening in front of them. Its unhealthy for them to sit there and nothing using no physical activity or exec rise.

Digital technology is kind of like brain damaging. It sucks everything out of you and insert all these digital thoughts in your head.

Opposing Views

Even though the digital world has a lot of bad things about it, it also has some good thing about it too. It allows you to keep in contact with close family/friends which is a great use. Also its a faster way to do things such as checking the weather or looking up things you need instead of other things that take too long. Digital devices allow you to think about things you never thought about before. A quote that Andy wrote on the board is a positive aspect on the digital world is that "the constant improvement of digital technology has helped the economy while simultaneously reducing resource consumption and social communication in our age has lessened loneliness and helped people live happier lives." Things like love dating websites and websites where you can interact with people and show them your true identity without actually meeting them and with dating websites you can find someone you are compatible with with a simple survey instead of blind dates.

Connections

This connects to everything bad is good for you because the author says that the digital world allows you to open up to things you never thought of but other people believe it is bad because reading came first. Is it possible that if digital came first and reading came second would people feel the same way or would they think digital devices are better.

Significance

Digitalization is significant because it allows you to think about how it helps you and affects you in many ways. Its kind of like a new millennium. Its important how digitalization can be made into one thing and transformed to multiple things affecting society and the world good and bad. Its significant in a way that others use it for useful things while to her abuse it.