There are millions of other bloggers to choose from that are beyond phenomenal, I can’t promise you that my writing will be mind-blowing, but it will be interesting. Welcome to my little corner of darkness, I call a living nightmare of relentless torture.  Albeit, in life there are ephemeral moments of ecstasy, happiness, and satisfaction to make it worth enduring. My name is Elisa Frias, I know very little about anything really, from the moment of my birth I have been stumbling, struggling, and just plain trying to figure out what to do with it. Through my writing I am able to escape the 21^st century reality of self-centered netizen that record their entire lives on the many social media applications from their reasoning behind their current style in life all the way down to their bowel movements. My rejection of these social norms has forced me to focus on my education and career, which are mostly exempt of these forms of severe mental torment. Moreover, I managed to be one of a few that received a full scholarship to Shanghai, China from the Chinese Government. Being paid to learn Mandarin is something that I never thought, I’d ever get to experience because of my ability to express myself on paper.

            I have been made to be part of media technology probably as long as most people have, since I was old enough to sit up straight.  Media incorporates aspects of society, simple morals, and accepted behavior. The media provides us with bits and pieces of our living reality for it cannot completely encapsulate what we go through in our daily lives. Media and Technology can be incorporated to teach math and science like some shows on Nickelodeon, to teachers incorporating it in class to make it more fun. These are the obvious positive uses of media and technology. However, as a student media technology has been ineffective throughout my life. These instructional technologies build these insurmountable walls that make it much more difficult to learn. The main focus is on figuring out how to use these ever evolving technological computer programs that we are told are supposed to further student’s learning. The opposite is occurring, it is just getting in our way. For example this blog has taken me days to try and figure out. It will be different next year than it is today.  The new technological advancements that occur in months to a year will make the version I've learned obsolete. I'll be forced once again to relearn what I thought I knew, this is a waste of my precious time, life is short. I don't intend to spend hours worth of time that accumulate to years on something that isn't even real, but virtual. I could have just written it and handed it in to receive my grade. Also, it stomps out creativity and originality overall.  Most students look up the work of scholarly individuals online and never get to form their own personal ideas separated from this black abyss of endless virtual online information. The idea of being forced to acclimate into this zombie type of brainless person would undoubtedly force me to opt out and exit this thing people call “life.” I recoil at the thought of spending years inside, a sheep among sheep, addicted by this so called "advancement."