Blog 13 Week 10

The smartmob concept by Reingold is what we consider to be a description of how we interact with technology today. My own smartmob experience came in two waves. The first was text messaging. For years and years I never had text messages and I never quite understood this face in phone concept. But now that I have finally upgraded to the 22nd century lifestyle, I TOTALLY get it. I realized the convenience and ease that was associated with texting and at this point I am pretty sure I never even use my cell phone as an actual phone. My second wave of this smartmob experience came when I was a freshman in college. I came from a rather technologically slow background where I didn't get the fastest internet and when everyone was using cable and dsl, I was still forced to use dial up. The moment I got to college, it was like Christmas came early this year. The internet so fast and filled with information used to be so hard to navigate because it took 5 minutes to load one page, but now that I was finally up to date with my internet connection I became absorbed. I started online gaming and eventually lived my life online. Overall this smartmob concept is readily applied to many of our technological obsessions such as Facebook, YouTube and so on.