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| E-Portfolio (2) Love and romance |
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E-Portfolio (2) Love and romance
Nowadays, love and romance can’t leave digital technology. The whole processes since people meet to merry are always using digital technology. When 2 people meet, they have a talk about their interest likes watching movie or playing games. Then they will exchange the phone number, Facebook. After home, they keep contact with WhatsApp or have a call. They may come out to watch a movie, play computer games together. Maybe they will buy flights to have a trip online. Take some photos with their phones or camera. Propose marriage with videos songs and surprise. Make the appointment registration online. Play the video and photos on their wedding. After merry, they may drive a car to everywhere.
In this ‘process’, communication is most important of love. Whatever they get together, holding the relationship or after merry, they need to communicate. For the most popular digital technology of communication in Hong Kong, WhatsApp is the famous one and success one. Almost everyone will download it if they have a smart phone. We use WhatsApp to replace SMS because it is free, useful and instant. Also we can talk to many people at the same time in a group, sharing video and voice chat too, and that’s what SMS haven’t. To use WhatsApp, all we need to have is a smartphone; a phone number and network connect. Nowadays, mostly phone plan include network connect and there are Wi-Fi anywhere, so if you have smartphone, you can use WhatsApp easily. That’s why WhatsApp become popular.
WhatsApp completely change our life. Before it came, we use SMS to find others, we date others by SMS or calls, every single SMS cost money. And we can only type 160 words in 1 SMS without emoji. No video, sounds, music, picture. After WhatsApp, we use it to chat others online, we send photo to lover if we think it is fun, less calls but more WhatsApp because it is free. We can send voice chat to lover with sweet message too. Those we can’t do it before. Chat in WhatsApp all the time, build up the relationship by phone are the new trend teenagers present their love and romance. Use a heart emoji or kiss emoji to present to replace ‘<3’ ‘-3-‘. Maybe send her (him) our photos for getting a closer relationship. Everything change more convenience and fast for communicates.
For benefits, we can improve relationship very fast by keep sending WhatsApp few days, and it helps us to know each other more. We also can use more method (Emoji, video, voice) to communicate. That makes us getting closer.
But it may also come from bad things, WhatsApp speed up the process we know each other. But we may not clearly know how the girl (boy) is so fast. If we trust someone too fast, we may get cheat by others or getting lost. WhatsApp may let people just talk in the app and don’t know how to face others and the last on and seen function makes many lovers quarrel for guessing others too.(WhatsApp 傷感情, link 1)
In my own views, although WhatsApp may makes many problems, if we can communicate more, trust more, be careful and seems it only a way to contact, don’t let it affect our daily life and real communicate, it brings us convenience and it helps us know others well.
Also, there are some Apps for meeting friends or find love online. (lovestruck, hongkongcupid)As computer become so popular today, there are some websites and phone apps for finding some heterosexual to chat with you or date with you. For the use, you can enter your information for others to find and you can find someone who meet your target. If matching success, you may keep contact, exchange phone number or date out. For those people who need to work all the times, it is useful for them to meet new friends or lover. Also they can choose who they want to talk if they like, it save times from traditional matching face to face and they can have a larger ‘market’.
But for cons, all these are holding online, you don’t know their information is real or not, there are many lies, they may cheat you that their face, age or money(欺騙視覺效果, 13/3蘋果日報, link 2) Although you chat with someone few months and date out, it may not save too. They may fraud; sexual assault; theft and extortion, by 2013, there are 261 case of this kind scam. (graph 1) ( 食飯騙手機, 30/6/2011, 蘋果日報, link3) There may have a risk by using this kind of websites or apps.
In my opinion, we can get benefit if we keep smart and claim, don’t easily trust others and we need to bring a friend when we date with online friends. If we just meet online friends, I think this is ok. If we want to find a lover from it, we must be careful.
http://cg.cosmopolitan.com.hk/love/love-insight/whatsapp-brings-harm-relationship
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/realtime/breaking/20140313/52277218
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20110630/15388998
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| E-Portfolio (1) Work & Business |
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E-Portfolio (1) Work & Business
In our daily life, work & business is an inseparable part that we use most of time to face and handle. Everyone needs to work for their wants or life. Along with grow up of digital technology, the world of ‘Work & Business’ changed
First I want to discuss is the change of the environment of ‘Work & Business’. Along with grow up of digital technology, there become more problems and needs of digital. Then it makes opportunity of work. There are many jobs ‘created’ by digital technology likes programmer, forum manager, apps designer and technology department. And everything change to digital and online with grow up of digital technology.
In the past, everyone does their work in their work in the office; record things by pen and papers; take a plane to have a meeting and present things by mouth, paper and blackboard; design things with hand draw. By digital technology, we can do all the things with a computer anywhere. Work everywhere with computer, marks things, online meeting, design things by software and use infographic to present things easily. Digital technology makes the way how we work changes. In this case, people can do all the works or things with 1 computer only. Also, we use digital technology to do things better and saving time, so we can save those times for doing others things.
For business, the grow of digital technology build a big network online. Distance between people getting closer and closer. It means ‘global businesses’ become easily. If you hold a business online, your market can expand to the whole world, everyone can see and buy you product online. Also, B2B, B2C even C2C or C2B become convenience, so Alibaba (B2B), Taobao (B2C) comes and become the ‘winner’ of digital technology. They are an online platform, shops or factory post their products or what they can do, and customer can find, compare, and shopping online easier. For shops, they save times to find customer, save money to have a real shop and expand their market. The cost, time and even risk can be lowest if they have business online. It benefits both side.
For the business offline, they can enjoy the benefits of digital too. For boss, he can lead and control many company at the same time by phone or computer. He can see what those companies did by computer at home and watch it easily by infographic. Boss doesn’t need to go every company to see the result of them. Out of the boss, the company can buy sources with those online methods. For example Book Company, it can use Alibaba to hire companies make books, sell the books online and promote by advertising online in Facebook.
Nowadays, E-business is a good way for people wants to do business with low cost and save rent, salary, raw materials and even advertisement. It increases the competitive power of the small company. The variety and diversity of business are expanding by digital technology and it brings efficiency to companies.
For work, online worker is a new trend of works. By the research of government 2011, there are 18% people in Hong Kong work online.What is online workers means? It means people don’t need to work in office but anywhere. We call it virtual office, virtual office is a place that people work with things they need, and they can work everywhere if they have enough source to work. People get works, data and information they need to do, and boss will tell them what to do online. Boss can check their works every time and everywhere without face content. That means workers can work in different country, different language, or different age. Workers and boss can never see others. All they need to do is finish the work, present it to others online and communicate with colleagues online.
What is the benefit of online workers? First, boss can hire people everywhere with ability. That means boss can compare people and hire the most suitable one. Also, online works don’t need office, so there can be more capital input to the products or employees. Also, there can be easier to post jobs and find employees though internet. Efficient can be improved if they work online.
By the way, all works or businesses are on the internet. There may be risk be trusting people online or hacker problems. All the things changing online will make people leave away from exercise and become fat. In my own views, the pros are more than cons, most jobs or business changing online is the future trend. It can’t stop. With suitable regulation, policy, and be smart and keep claim for things online, this can bring positive improvement to society.
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