Technology - good or bad?
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I'm 24 years old so I guess i can be classified as "technologically advanced". In the past 2 months, I've been job hunting like a madman and finally found a job at Trader Joe's. I used many search techniques throughout my hunts and found that 99% of employers use online applications and resume submissions.
This pisses me off because all my life I've been trained for first impressions and professionalism and it seems that these skills mean hardly anything anymore.
With Facebook, Myspace, texting, and the ever expanding internet social networks and indirect communications, it seems many issues are dealt with using these non-personal methods. Has anyone else ever thought about how technology effects our abilities to resolve social problems (whether it be relationships, jobs, etc)? I mean, why doesn't Obama write on Bin Laden's Facebook wall and tell him to come out. Maybe he'll understand that because it appears that a majority of personal issues are dealt with that way.
I'm 24 years old so I guess i can be classified as "technologically advanced". In the past 2 months, I've been job hunting like a madman and finally found a job at Trader Joe's. I used many search techniques throughout my hunts and found that 99% of employers use online applications and resume submissions.
This pisses me off because all my life I've been trained for first impressions and professionalism and it seems that these skills mean hardly anything anymore.
With Facebook, Myspace, texting, and the ever expanding internet social networks and indirect communications, it seems many issues are dealt with using these non-personal methods. Has anyone else ever thought about how technology effects our abilities to resolve social problems (whether it be relationships, jobs, etc)? I mean, why doesn't Obama write on Bin Laden's Facebook wall and tell him to come out. Maybe he'll understand that because it appears that a majority of personal issues are dealt with that way.
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I'd say technology is neutral. It's just a tool, which can be used in good or bad ways. When people communicate via technology to the exclusion of more personal forms of communication that they would otherwise have had, to me that's bad. But when they use it for communication they would NOT otherwise have had, I'd say that's good.
As for professionalism and first impressions, I think these skills are still meaningful. Even though you can sit at home and submit initial applications in your boxers, you'll need these skills for both your interview and your job.