Violetta Evsioukova's Blog on Digital enviroments

Lev Manovich~The practice of eveyday(media) life January 28, 2010

What do peple really want?  – Do I want to be a part of a mayhem, that I do not know where its going to lead me?I am already a part of this mayhem, and it is unescapable. Is this a way of keeping track of people, and contolling them like little puppets from a higher power above ?I dont know, I know that from the first time I ever touched a PC ( which I cant remember when it was) I have been  presented with temptations of using different programmes that are sociable,the first programme I remember, was a game Lara Croft- (Tomb Raider),It made me want to play over and over again,and I was more at home-playing by myself, than being with my friends.That was my first experience of the expanded mass consumption of games, sosial networks and modernisation of media. Since that time, everything has just flourished towards everything being available for any person on the net ,almost like a personal Robot, You can see your friends on the internets different sosial networks, you can do your foodshopping in a matter of minutes,you can do your banking there, you can do a fulltime job there, and all of that and much moore you can do without even getting up of the sofa. Is someone trying to controll us? Or has everything just been ajusted to our wishes and couriousness, of how far we can go?Is there a limit?

I feel that there is so much positive about this, as it is negative, It is timesaving and helpfull ,and at the same time, the “Sosial networks” can  also mean ” Anti-Social”.

People are being influenced both in positive an negative ways. I think its up to people to rethink, everything they see and hear twice, thats why we are  humans , we have intellect.