Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Xixi Lin Essay#2



Technology is a big part of our daily life now, but it comes with many problems. The most common examples,  like many kids are barely go out and play with friends because almost every game we had been playing outdoor with our friends, they can play with the computer or Apple products now; and like many people get back pain problem is because they spend too much time with it.

However, despite those bad effects, I still think it is very helping. In my personal situation it make my job much easier and realizable.  it makes the cost of communication which with my parents who lives in China easier,more flexible and cheaper.
 
For example, I need to use it to finish a big part of my jobs and give timely response to my client. In contrast, I can image if there were no any computers and smart phones, I won't be able to make this job works, because most of my clients are living in China,  and I have to show them newest fashions in the market and notice them presently effective prices. The market and the prices are changed very fast.  If I don't use the technologies we had now, if I only could use the post mail like past, then when they got the informations and prices,  most of them were changed or expired.


The another reason, the cost of communication, I still remember many years ago, the international calls were so expensive,  like if I want to talk with my parents for half or an hour, it would cost a lot of money, but now it is being different. With an smartphone and internet, I could talk with them as longer as I want. Also, there is no limit, and it is totally free! And it have so many different way to do it, like FaceTime, QQ(a chinese APP),and Skype, and many other. The most advantege of it is  these tools are go with images, people can talk face to face, it makes each other's distance magically shorter.


          In the end, I think just for these two reasons I believe the technology and its progress is a good and help things happened in our daily life.


1 comment:

  1. Hi Xixi,

    I am so glad that you used very concrete examples from your own life to develop your essay! I like how you use a "twist" style for your introduction. One thing that would be helpful before you get to your first paragraph, though, would be to explain to the reader what your job is. You start talking about clients, fashions and prices without clearly explaining what your actual job is. Could you add a short paragraph which describes your job before you start explaining how your computer makes it so much easier for you? That would make it much clearer and easier to follow!

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