MODERN DIGITAL MEDIA SAVED MY LIFE

Imagine if we lived in the past back in the 18^th century. Travelling on horses, using pigeon post to deliver messages thousand miles away from its original place, talking to the person directly would be a common sight everyday. In this era, it is not necessary for us to do such things anymore. With the invention of modern digital media, we live in a fortunate way to communicate.

Modern digital media is a way to communicate with other people using a certain technology such as Internet, multimedia, digital video, digital sound, computer graphics and even blogs.

This is my first blog, the reason I’m writing this is to share my personal experience about how modern digital media has helped me a lot. I was travelling to one of the islands near to Celebes or refer to Sulawesi for Indonesians with my family. I wasn’t prepared for urgent needs to happen while I was in vacation, nobody would, I guess. I only brought my cellular phone. I was enjoying peaceful and relaxing holiday on the island when one of my friends texted me about the due date of my school project. I didn’t realize the due date of my project was 1 day after my arrival to my hometown. I started to get panic; none of my family had brought any digital media to the island.

Most of people will say, leave all your gadgets at home while travelling. However, at one point this statement is not valid for me. Going without gadgets gives trouble for me. I spotted an Internet café in a small town near my cottage and it was a huge relief. That digital media had saved my life. It actually not threatens my life, but it will effect my future because I have to submit my assignments as soon as possible, I don’t know what is going to happen that day if I don’t submit my work. I can’t even imagine, that assignment is really really important for me. If on that day I didn’t submit the assignment, maybe it can ruin my grade in the school, which I don’t want that to happen to me.

Back to the information of modern digital media, everything in this world has positive impacts, which is the advantages and also negative impacts, which is the disadvantages. First thing first, I will start with the advantages of modern digital media. First, of course its speed and convenience. Modern media nowadays saves so much time compared to the older, which is the analogue one. There will be rarely any pauses on digital media and work can be done in a huge amount in shorter period of time. As time goes by, modern media gets quicker and have more efficient in the working process. This translates to increased productivity which refer to higher profit in a business which using modern media. Last but not least, the advantage is its quality video and audio, which can be seen on computers, televisions and many more taken with digital cameras.

The disadvantages of modern media are that modern media have also changed what privacy means. People frequently put their personal information about themselves on their Facebook and even talk about their life to strangers they have never met. Years ago media has been critics that parents could keep their children from inappropriate material, today it is much harder because as kids go online, play video games and many else that are connected with the Internet connection.

Therefore, it has many advantages and disadvantages although many people refute against digital media especially old people. I personally say modern media can help people to:

·      Find information easily

·      Have communities with people outside my neighborhood

·      Do the school assignments

·      Download music or videos

·      Explore my interest in sports, music, etc.

In conclusion, modern media can be beneficial for us and also harm for us. Depends on us again, which is more beneficial for us to use modern media or not using modern media.