A Changing Society

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A Changing Society

The current state of the American Family is certainly different than it was 50 years ago or so. It’s much different than it was even 10 years ago, and many of these changes were, and still are enabled by advancing computer technology.

In today’s day, it’s rare for someone, especially teenagers and young adults to leave the house without their cell phones. One of the reasons is because this gives them us an outlet to who we want, when we want. It also provides flexibility to speak with people at our own conveniences and at our own privacy. We can experience confidentiality away from other people and in assurance that family members, who in the past probably would have overheard our conversations as we would have been speaking on the single, centrally located rotor telephone, cannot hear.

The internet is another huge outlet can change our economic structure. In the same sense that D’Emilio described capitalism as essentially providing people with a sense of new found independence, internet is on the same route. While life is fairly easy to live successfully “independent” in comparison to what it once was, things are only getting easier. The internet provides an entire new social system for people to really indulge themselves in. Online communities are established by everything from common interests to lifestyles. This makes it now possible to be involved in something not only across the county, but perhaps even across the world. I think the internet can also act as a guard, or a wall. You can feel more ease to be yourself online, without having to worry about the direct and immediate after effects or reaction of those who may disagree as you would in real life social scenes.

If things continue to progress technologically in the same direction as it has been, I think we will be able to look back upon this change just as D’Emilio did on the capitalist economy. We are already establishing levels of independence beyond what they ever were. I think we humans strive for this because it allows us to express our individuality, which is in a way, in our nature.