The Affection of Technology in Social Aspect of Life

Life is never flat; it’s not always easy. Day by day, there are uncomfortable changing situations that always happen. One of them is the development of technology invention that attempts to individualize people. Laptop, tablet, cellphone, and other kinds of technology are the proof of individualistic tendency. Social interaction space becomes limited. The obtrusive affection of technology giving several negative contributions in social aspect of live as its disadvantages. 

Shaping Student's Personality through Experience-Taking

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these thing—T.S Elliot. Immemorially, literature which defines literally as letter had been became a persuasive way to affect someone’s personality. Researched at Ohio State University showed that students who read fictional books involved their emotions, thoughts, beliefs, and personal responses within the characters in the books as their own feeling. People subconsciously affected by a particular character in a literary works that they read in a way dubbed “Experience-taking.” Realize that the phenomenon potentially beneficial and applicable to shape students personality; this paper which referenced from the review of Journal Personality and Social Psychology, will discuss briefly about experience-taking and the hypothesis of shaping students personality through experience-taking. 

“Experience-taking” a new term created by Geoff Kaufman and his assistant Lisa Libby, defines as someone’s accessibility to adopt their thought, emotions, behaviors, and personal responses to match some particular characters in the fictional books they read. The affective affinities of the fictional books are potentially elicited compassion of the readers; it is the way experience-taking worked within the readers. Researches assert the fact that experience-taking can only happen when readers are forgotten themselves and their concept of life when they try to get involved in the story. Besides that, the merger between the readers and the characters that occur in the story is better happen when the characters revealed as a first-person narrative. Additionally, in the experience-taking phenomenon, the more the readers involve, the better affection happens toward the reader’s behavior afterwards.

Since many studies discovered that fictional books can affect reader’s personality, it is possible to make a hypothesis about experience taking and the most possible hypothesis is shaping student’s personality through experience taking. Abundance of favorable goals is set toward student’s personality changing through experience-taking. For instance, after read fictional books that given, students having an imaginative process of thinking and subconsciously adopted the way the story characters think and feel, and then the students are able to be religious, discipline, hard-work, responsible, and its line. Need to be noted, the books that given should be contain those characteristics.

For sum up, even the experience-taking phenomenon is quite new in psychology field of study, but it is convincingly stoned for fictional books lover. Whereas, teachers and the other educational stakeholders need a really big effort on facing a vary problems within student’s personality, experience-taking is quite prone to be conducted. Indeed, experience-taking is needed to be applied for students, so the students’ subconsciously change their behavior and having the better personality.

The Use of Television

The world comes to a modern era in line with the development of technology. New inventions created to fulfill humans’ needs. Televisions take its role in this technology era; it is invented to fulfill the need of information. Based on a research; from all over the world, 12 million people a day, watch TV.  However, people not only find the good sides of television, but also the bad sides. In line with what had been stated by Steve Jobs “I think it's brought the world a lot closer together and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television, but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.”¹ These following paragraphs will be discussed about two positive sides and two negative sides of television.

 The positive sides of the television; which of course in line with the purpose of its invention; it is informative, cheap, entertain, etc. People must be agreed that televisions are informative enough to be placed as mass media. Television with its thousands of channels and programs provides the newest, hottest, and the most favorite issues or information. Besides that, it has a friendly cost to de bought, it’s cheap. Imagine how much money people spend to get information from internet, magazine, and newspaper. Compare to the cost of television which only Rp. 1.000.000-, with a low price of electricity. These positive sides of televisions are reasonable enough to keep using television as the sources of information.

Come to the negative sides of television, which caused a very great problem. The first negative side of television is the influence of its ‘inappropriate’ programs toward someone’s personality. Sometimes, it’s lake of sensor control; people still watch about violence, pornography, etc. The second point; it’s caused people become passive. It is happened because people who like watching television are accustomed with visual aid with one interaction. No feedback from the watchers. Well, these two negative sides of television are quite imperative to be considered as a problem.

For sum up, even a technology comes from a very good invention process and invented for the good, it still has the bad side for the users. Recognized the bad side, and avoid. use the good side, and be thankful. Use the good side of television wisely and avoid the bad side by controlling yourself and your family activities toward television.

 [1] http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/television.html

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I'm Emi Fitri Audina (F12112009). I'm 19 years old. I'm a 4th semester student of English Education study program  in Tanjungpura University.

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