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Online vs. Paper
Posted by Girls By Design
July 9, 2011
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Hey GBD!  I’ve spent most of my day today putting the final touches on a few applications for professional school and have started working on a few others.  While most of my applications have been 100% online, I was surprised and disappointed to see that a few require paper submissions via mail.  Even my mother commented that the schools with paper-only applications are “behind the times” (including her alma mater, no less!).  While it might appear trivial, this distinction speaks to the customs of today’s youth.  Are we a generation that needs everything to be digital, or do traditional media such as paper still have their merits?  With our dependence upon computers, smart phones, and similar technology, is the use of more traditional media something good that keeps us in touch with a world without every technological luxury?  Or is it instead an outdated barrier to productivity and efficiency?

– Lauren Louie

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Guillaume26

July 11, 2011

I think traditional media such as paper still have their merits and yes its something that keep us in touch …. maybe there is too much technology …. and i think we need to be more close and personnal.
computers are very practical as telephones but I find that become very impersonal and we have more difficulty to communicate in person. We all need to turn attention on this.


Susana/Susy

July 12, 2011

I think nowadays, people prefer everything to be all digital, and to have that technology in the palm of their hands. Speaking from someone who works in a retail store where it’s all about technology and the newest ‘thing’ out there, I see so many people wanting everything to be digital…including books; like nooks, and all those e-readers. And to be honest it’s kind of sad because I am an old school kind of person, I am still one of thsoe people that likes to check out books at a library and not need a little machine to do it for me. I like to send letters and receive letters, instead of everything be on e-mail. BUT that’s not to say that I am not someone who likes technology and to have some stuff be digital, I just don’t want traditional stuff to be obsolete.

Okay sorry about the babble, just wanted to put my 2 cents in.


looqmaun

July 13, 2011

Well paper will always be paper because most of the user guides to many electronic appliances are in paper form. In other words you can’t get rid of paper because if the user guides are in english(or your mother language) ON PAPER then regardless of it being a teacher or a boss, both will want work done as soon as possible, or the way they like to write it down, ASAP, :) and thus will prefer not to choose a user guide when a sticky note/paper pad or a yell will do.
:)

Computers are a part of almost all feilds of life but will computers take over traditional media? I doubt that. Its not the fault of the machine as much as it is of the user because of which, if nothing else, its always comforting to get things done in person than otherwise.


DeannaRochelle

July 13, 2011

It’s sad that while paper does still have its merits, they are diminishing quickly. Electronic devices are great because they are easily accessible and easy to use, but it seems like nowadays it’s out with paper and in with computers for most everything. For example, in Indiana schools they are no longer teaching cursive and are instead teaching elementary students typing skills.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/06/typing-beats-scribbling-indiana-schools-can-stop-teaching-cursive/

I’ve talked to one Indiana elementary teacher who said they are are still teaching print but are placing less importance upon penmanship. Does anybody else remember penmanship being really crucial in elementary school and practicing it for hours?! And who’s to say this madness won’t spread to other places, or that even printing won’t be wiped out completely? I guess it’s no longer “the pen is mightier than the sword” but instead “the keyboard is mightier than the sword.”