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Summary Of The IRL Fetish By Nathan Jurgenson

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In 2012, Nathan Jurgenson wrote an article call “The IRL Fetish”. It’s about how we disconnect ourselves from the “real life” and that we “logged on and check out,” but didn’t really “check out” from the technologies. I agree with his points of when people are on technologies people are checked out from their surroundings. In the first half of the article, Jurgenson is talking about how we disconnect ourselves from the “real life,” he gives an example of what we do with social media/ technologies. For the most part, he only brings up examples of how people using the technologies, but he did not really bring up his point of why he writing the article until like the last half of the article. He says that we are more log on with the technologies …show more content…

I was like how technologies is interdependable. As I continue reading deeper in the article. I end up very agree with him. According to Longman dictionary, interdependable are “depending on or necessary to each other.” I believe that Jurgenson saying technologies are interdependable as it’s both necessary to each other. From the article, “Facebook doesn’t curtail the offline but depends on it. … The Web has everything to do with reality; it comprises real people with real bodies, histories, and politics. It is the fetish objects of the offline and the disconnected that are not real.” (Jurgenson 196). Let’s look at Facebook and Instagram for example. These applications want user, us, to post pictures, update status, so our friends and the world can see what is going. What if we don’t post pictures and updates any of the status. People around the world will not know what happen, the apps become useless. Easy to understand right? Without us, users, these applications/ technologies will not be …show more content…

I’m a kind of person that don’t like reading at all. So I have to find a way that we make my reading easier. I end up reading with an audio book. It’s nothing wrong with an audio book. Indeed, it’s better than I thought it would be. Audio book makes me like reading a little more and make me finish the book. Without the audio, I will be still in the first page. Going back to what Jurgenson is saying. I can say that technologies make our life easier so we like it. This article is very good for parents who their children always spend time on their devices with friends. If your child is using devices too much, it’s not wrong. You can show them if they are using to much, they might be separate from their loves, you. You don’t want to talk with your kids via Facebook and any other social medias, do you? I know children these days not going to listen, but at least you being a good parents who try keep their children out from the technologies

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