How does the digital world help our Lifestyle? Introduction: what is a digital world? Why I chose this topic? Digital world is the availability and use of digital tools to communicate on the internet. This phrase digital world is commonly used in defining digital fluency and digital literacy. I chose this topic because of how the digital world will make our daily life easier, and the future is set on this. In this modern world digital media plays an important role in our lives. It has brought our friends and families closer even though when distance is far away. The rise in technological gadgets has made our life easier nowadays than before. It is easier for me to connect as I am using all these gadgets to bring my family closer, during these testing times. Here are some advantages of the technologies we use in our daily life. Nowadays everybody are using internet broadband or wifi communication technology, which makes their lives easy as you can search anything on the net in an instant, or send and receive mails and messages without loss of time. Even sending and receiving pictures and files have been made easier through airdrop, whatsapp and etc. It is also very cost effective as we don’t have to spend many materials like paper, ink, files, office stationary and etc on this type of communication. All transactions are done by digital platforms nowadays. Starting with ATM’s instant money transfer, the society is going cashless with these kind of improved technology using Smartphone’s, tablets and laptop. Cash can be easily stolen since it is physical, but digital money cannot be stolen easily because it is has more secure alternatives. Digital payments reduce the money being mis-managed. Transaction and payments are easier to follow and it keeps track of their spending. It also helps in filing income tax returns. People don’t have to carry a check-book as there are lot of mobile apps to do transaction like Google pay, pay tm and Even some banks have their own apps, which will be customer friendly to do transactions, like Axis bank, Indian bank, HDFC bank and etc. Most of us are shifting to online business as it is made our lives easier, we can even work from home and conduct our everyday business through Smartphone’s or laptops. Some examples of these kinds of businesses are Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra for fashion and Swiggy and zomato for online food business. These kind of business are very easy in day to day life because everything is delivered in our own doorstep which will save our time and effort because we don’t have to go shopping all the way to the store. Social media has become a way of communication and interaction of the people around the world. In the past most of our social interactions were private and undocumented. This is not the case now with the digital age. Facebook, Instagram, twitter and Snapchat are other forms of social media, which are gaining fast attention. These kinds of companies have huge database full of all kinds of information about our social behaviour. Education online is a new concept in the year 2020. Due to the pandemic situation there’s been a drastic change in the field of education. Who would have thought that education could go online. But it has been made possible with the help of smart technologies. This has improved our lifestyle drastically since online classes have started as everyone have opened up different sites like Google classroom, Zoom and other digital platforms for learning. We don’t have to go to the library for referring a book, on the other hand we go to thesaurus or Google search engine. Even though technology has gotten us here the internet certainly has its own disadvantages. It has given us access to a lot of information where privacy is compromised. Crimes and terrorism has taken to a next level. Hacking is one of a cyber crime, which has increased recently. Phishing is also another cyber crime which gets personal information on an individual or company, by posting as trustworthy organization. Cyber bullying, planting viruses or worms are also a crime, which is increasing since technology has advanced. Even cameras pose a threat as they come as a small tiny button, which cannot be suspected easily. People are socially disconnected, Loneliness and sedentary lifestyle has replaced active interaction and regular exercising has become an effort to be taken from their side. Obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other variety of physical conditions are some of the disadvantages of sedentary lifestyle. Gaming platform has gone to the next level. Children nowadays are into online games as they are not allowed to play outside, due to the pandemic situation. Due to overexposure to the internet their eyesight has been compromised and everybody is wearing glasses or reduced screen time. Due to this reason children don’t have much physical friends, but rather online friends whom they don’t even meet. Youngsters are spending most of their time on social media and networking and missing the joys of real social life. Internet gambling has become an addiction for so many and inappropriate information has been made accessible to children. None of these disadvantages implies that technology is bad, but rather how we find the balance to compensate the weakness that the technology will bring. It is in our hands to encourage more face to face interactions and feel like they are part of the culture. Our future is yet to embrace these kinds of changes in our own lifestyle and create a better world where everybody interacts more with each other in a healthier way. In conclusion the way our lifestyle is, has drastically changed from laboured work to digital work, which made our lives easier and better to do daily chores and business. The way I see all this made me realise that digital world is really helpful and convenient in our daily life. Without the world wide web (www) globalization and outsourcing would not be easier today. But there are some dark side to the same technology which we should be careful and protect ourselves from it. But in the end, digital world is like a Pandora’s box, the society should learn to balance the good and the evil that comes out of it.
