The Digital Literacy Experience in My Life

ENG

The digital literacy experience in my life

During the past 10 years, under the background of the age of the internet, a large change happened in each network citizen’s life. It is an impressive fact that how an extremely big influence the emergence of the social network has on the life of those ordinary people. As a network citizens growing up with social network, the influence of social network having on most of people also happens to me.

In December, 2009, I came across my first social network that called XIAONEI and it is just like a copy of Facebook in China. Although at that time, it’s just a place to share your status updates, photos and blogs, and its access is limited to the computer, this brought a huge impact to me. At that time, I never think of the situation two people can chat freely through the Internet and even play games, recording videos between each other. This new way of interpersonal communication has changed my life a lot. Every day I will go online to update my status and give comments to others’, searching for some interesting photos, news and articles and sharing them with my friends, then waiting for them to reply. It has really become a part of my life. I can’t live without it like that a fish couldn’t live without water.

Science and technology accelerate the progress of human civilization. In the digital age, everything is being changed rapidly. Since 20 years ago, parents begun to taught me speaking and communication with other. In my previous 18 years of life, my social field confined to the people who around me and social activities are limited in face to face communication, I have become accustomed to write down myself thoughts in note book and collected their own everything. However, since I join the social networking, I started to sense that in the social networking is completely different from reality social way.

During the five years when I was active on the XIAONEI, I witnessed the constant improvement of this website: the interface became more and more fantastic to see and a lot of kinds of applications coming out constantly to fulfill the requirement of users, but the thing that was improved mostly is the way to share. Sharing is the core for this kind of social network website, sharing status, sharing pictures, and sharing links. It records every little bit of your life. In those five years my personal home page on XIAONEI had become more and more perfect. New status was posted on the home page nearly every day, as well as different kinds of photos. These five years, Xiaonei recorded every wonderful moment time. Now review for my XiaoNei home page, the first status updated in Dec.06, 2009, it’s just only an irrelevant crap, at that time I may not have thought of this is the beginning of my social network, and I also didn’t know the importance of this. Different from the status, the first picture posted on the home page after 6 months later and I still remember clearly the first photo from my IPHONE4. After that time, I began to more tend to use photo to record and share my life, and sharing photos had become my habit.

All the time, I am not good at use words to express myself, at same time I believe that compared to the photo; words are always too pale, and for the expression of various complex scenes I tend to use photos. And cause of I had got a IPhone, took high quality photo and share it in anywhere were realized, after 2010, on the home page of almost all new upload is in the form of photos. And with the increase of home page content, more and more fans left footprint on my home page, the sense of achievement let me have more power to update the home page.