Mobile technologies seriously blur our private and public space boundary in our daily life.
Nowadays, with high-speed wireless, Internet access, many apps and free message services, we can use our smartphone anytime and anywhere. If we pay a bit attention on MTR or bus next time, we will probably find that almost everyone fiddles with their hands, some of them even fiddle with their phone and tablet at the same time.
We always use our mobile technologies to do private things in public space such as Internet banking
and checking email. Even I have experienced a very embarrassing situation in which a person watching porn video on the bus, which should be a private interest and done in our own private space. The passengers, sitting next to or behind him, would definitely judge this man by what he watched even he is a decent man or professional in reality. I try not to do any important process through my phone at any public places and try not to go in any web which causes embarrassment. I strongly recommend them to use a mobile technology function, called “Incognito mode” in Google Chrome, which can sort of erase any browsing history and so if the user loses his phone, no previous web sites can be traced.
I think blurring of the boundary is bad to our everyday life, because we have our private secret things, we don't want to share with other people, so we need to think carefully what things can do in public space or private space.
Student Name: Lai Hoi Ying Ada
Student Name: Lai Hoi Ying Ada
Dear Ada, Thanks for your self-reflective sharing. While your discussion properly addresses the change of conception of space with the use of technology, you can also try to go beyond the questions that I gave you. To what extent does uses and gratifications theory would help you explain your personal experience? This is not a must but I'd like to provide another angle for your future discussion.
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