As we know New Media is our future, but does this means that New Media will control ourselves in the future? The last three weeks we have spend our class time reading articles that talked about how new media is affecting us in a good and bad way. After reading all of those articles I created my own point and is not going to the side of criticism or fanaticism, I think that we need to learn how to use new media for it to not affect us in a bad way but in a good one. But those this means that we should stop using it?
One of the big debates on Internet and world wide are the video games. I am a big fan of the video games and that is why I'm gonna show you the gains of it. I was looking at an article called Playing Video Games is Good for your Brain, and the author had a straight point where he found out that video games can be used for therapeutic classes to improve coordination and reaction. I think that this is very good information because I can tell you that as a gamer the video games don't affect my athletic abilities neither affects my body in a physical way. I am a goalkeeper and I need to have very good reactions and coordination and I can tell you that video games haven't affect this abilities, it could have probably improve them.
One of the polemics that they talk about in video games is how the war games affect and influence their kids. One of the big ideas from the scientists is that this war video games affect kids in a bad way and increase their aggressions which in my opinion isn't really true. I don't think that the war video games affect kid because I am a fan of this games and I play them all the days, and I can tell you that I am a really calm person who thinks before doing something and that is why this argument isn't really true, obviously you can say that people with a buff addiction problem could be affected by the video games because, all things in excess is bad and that is where I came back to the point of learning how to use new media in a way that it doesn't affects us physically or physiologically. But we don't want to go back into that point, I want to continue with a point that is making me crazy and I am sure that is making you crazy as well, Cellphones. The start of new media were the cellphones, it was incredible that you could call to any place ep that you wanted and without being in your house or in a telephone cabin. But as it started improving physically it was making humans stop improving ourselves, when cellphones were created with chat people didn't even use it as a phone, which is funny because phone is a part of the name, people started using it as a celltext where they didn't even hear their voices, they just wrote what they want to tell. You should be thinking that I want to finish with new media and that I hate it with all of my heart but I'm just telling the truth and the truth is that humans are creating things without thinking about the consequences and that is why media is affecting our lives.
The last weekend I went to Fundadores with my parents and my sister, at the same time that we were there there was a very important game going on and my dad wasn't happy about missing the game so the idea was to go fast to eat lunch and go back home to see the rest of the game, but when we get to the restaurants there was a giant black out and a projector that was showing the game, so we choose a good place to eat and while having lunch we could watch the game. Where do I want to get with this story? Well I am trying to show you that technology sometimes can make you really happy and improve your day, also entertain yourself but that doesn't mean that the old things that you did for entertaining yourself should disappear, playing soccer or running, those are really important thing that you should do not just for entertaining but for your health.
To conclude this essay I want you to think about how many time you spend in your cellphones, iPad, computers, ext, and the time you spend with your family and you will be impressed on how humanity are losing their something you can't replace because of a piece of metal you could replace at any moment. I invite you to learn to use your devices wisely for them to not affect you in a bad what but to make you rich in information and knowledge.