Cyber Culture

I use the internet to check my emails, instant message, play games online, and just to surf to read up on what’s going on in the world today. By engaging in these activities is has introduced me to the cyber world and the different opportunities that are available through the internet. I don’t go into chat rooms like I use to because of the things that have occurred that were associated with chat rooms. I don’t buy anything online I find what I’m looking for and the price for it and I go to the store to buy it. I don’t feel comfortable giving out my personal financial information online because of the hackers and the scammers that are on the net. I use facebook as a way to keep in touch with my friends and family to find out how they’ve been and what they have been up to. In some ways I feel as though I’m not in a particular cyber culture group because I don’t really participate in anything. I used to hang out in chat rooms and everything that’s associated with it back when I was in high school but I don’t really see a need to do that any more. Since I have changed my focus and priorities towards my family and school I don’t really have the time to go into different chat rooms and sit there and chat for hours. My experience with the cyber world has been a positive on and I don’t really seeing anything happening to change that.

Popular Culture

Pop culture has had a certain amount of influence on the types of decisions that I have made throughout my life. I never was really the type of person to be into fashion and what was the current style going on at that time. By doing this I could see myself being labeled and judge because of my actions and also being added to a group of people who also see things the way I see them. In a way pop culture labels and categorizes people into particular groups that it feels that person belongs. While in school I didn’t hang with the certain groups because of how they acted and what they said. This was my choice not to because I didn’t like the fact that they were saying that material things could buy you friends. Pop culture played a part in this because that was the image given on television. I listen to songs that I like not the songs that I’m supposed to listen to because of the type of group that I’m in or associated with. My clothing does not look the same as what pop culture says it should and that’s because I have my own taste in what I like to wear whether it is part of the current fashion trend or not. I try not to let pop culture have that much influence on me and the decisions that I make in life because I have a different taste on the things that I want and what I do than what pop culture suggests.

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