Apps, Changing our Imagination For Better or Worse

“With respect to imagination: Apps can make you lazy, discourage the development of new skills, limit you to mimicry or tiny trivial tweaks or tweets-or they can open up whole new worlds for imagining, creating, producing, remixing, even forging new identities and enabling rich forms of intimacy”

With the increase of technology, the number of applications (or apps)are also increasing. Katie Davis says, from the quote above that apps can make us better or worse. On one side they can help our imagination grow and become richer. On another hand they can diminish our abilities. From what we have been learning from in class it seems that apps have been turning our imagination for the worse.

Part of what helps this argument is what Sherry Turkle says. One of the main concepts that she says is this concept of being alone, even though we are connected with each other on social media. Here Turkle retweets from Lee Rainie this article about how social media is silencing our personal opinion. From what Katie says it shows that these three people are seeing how social media and apps are making us mimic others and use less of our creative parts of our brain.

Because we are constantly on our phones and social media we do not get to experience life how it was meant to be. From the video above we see how looking up from our smart phones can have a huge impact on our lives. Of course what happened between the man and woman in this case is a big one looking up from our phones can help us in smaller ways. It can help us interact with one another better, can let us experiance the world, however how can we experiance it correctly if all we know how to do is copy people over socail media.

Of course apps can help us with many things, there are more bad things that come with using them. Of course apps are not evil, however the main problem is how we monitor ourselves using our social media.