It feels strange that my parents now also gradually become parts of the modern cities’ life, but I am the one who try to stop them stepping inside and keep reminding them the traps inside the media infrastructure.
The new generations are easier to handle the technological products and utilize them while compared with the elder generations. Cell phones and laptops had become the essential tools for me to gather information and learning. What my parents did in the past was keeping saying that, “please don’t be obsessed with the technology.” Here were the divide and gap at that time, the gap between us was the ability of using technology, and daily habits.
With the improvement and development of the media infrastructures. Cell phones now are easier for using. My parents also beginning using smart cell phones. I now become the one who keep saying that “please don’t be obsessed with the technology.” Compared with my parents, I know more about the existence of the algorithms and how those apps might trick. My mon was surprised that the news app could also push the news that she was interested at. However, actually most the “news” for my mon actually not “news”, but marketing.
It now becomes a dilemma, on one side, knowing how to use smart phones let the elder generations to be parts of the modern society, on the other side, they become the targets of the online tricking.
We are all parts of the society, but all these changes cannot be actually decided by us, though the grass roots are the majority in number, but are the minority in rights.
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