The Importance Of Digital Culture

The digital culture has clearly changed and impacted the ways of modern life by connecting most of the world’s population through various social outlets. These networks can intertwine creativity, politics, values, advertising, religion, personal connection, and the list can go on and on. In many cases the digital culture has made things easier in terms of communication and interacting socially or for business purposes. Certain platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have evolved from connecting and sharing with personal friends to a multifaceted platform that connects one to the world. These types of social networks have in someways created a generation that depends on what I call a “digital significance” and is a intricate part of their existence

These devices can do almost anything is seems and are becoming more of a intimate object rather than a technical tool. Smartphones are great store vast amounts of personal information, games, contacts, and applications. Many people more than likely have a few social network applications, but only a few are held in high regard and that being Twitter and Facebook. Facebook is a social networking website and service where users can post comments, share photographs and links to news or other interesting content on the Web while also playing games, chat live, and even stream live video. Shared content can be made publicly accessible, or it can be shared only among a select group of friends or family, or with a single person (…….). By focusing on the elements of Facebook one can see how convergence plays a major role in its overall function along with interactivity. Facebook is one of those platforms that seems to be accessed 24 hours a day seven days a week. People always seem to be engaged with this network and are constantly finding reason to utilize Facebook for any reason. It use to be a social network site that one had to log into and out of, but now with smartphone devices one can always be “on” in a way by receiving updated and alerts to whatever they want to be altered about. As the article we read called Digital Cultures: Understanding New Media

I think Facebook is an great tool to connect with others and share creatively, emotionally, and so on. One can communicate with a long lost friend while listening to their favorite music and reading about the latest gossip within the celebrity world. One may find inspiration through Facebook to teach others or help victims of the latest natural disaster by reading a news article relating to the event. Or one my change their occupation by seeing jobs posted through their Facebook or maybe someone just wants to imitate the newest socialite making headlines from their posts. Either way, one uses Facebook to feel connected with the world around them and interact with people they feel that share this same ideal of digital significance. We are still in the beginning stages of this forever evolving digital culture and I am sure we will witness the next great technological device or new source of new media that will change everything. I feel if things progress in the way they already are we will literally be able to do and see anything and everything within minuets from our mobile devices. We will know and see whatever we want and be connected to whomever we want to socially connect to. I am just waiting for the day when we can actually block people in real life or