The community that I have chosen is a Facebook page called Lovers parrots and the administrators of the page dedicate their time to post videos and pictures of all sorts of parrot lovers like myself to see. The way they operate is people from the world message the page pictures but mostly videos of them and their parrots patting them or talking to them or just displaying tricks. It’s also beneficial for education regarding caring for birds and how their lifestyle in general should be handled. In addition you can also learn different way to stimulate parrots physically and mentally via comments left by people under videos as well as how to tame them.
This is beneficial tome due to the fact that it’s the first time I take full responsibility looking after a parrot. After discovering the page I found myself to be rather attached to it and always looking forward to videos sent in by fellow parrot lovers. My contributions to the page have been rather successful but not to the fullest but will remain an active member for times to come. I contributed a total of three things one being a meme I generated, an article outlining ways for first time parrot owners to get started due to the fact I’m not the only one that may be a beginner and lastly and what proved successful was a video of me patting my bird. It was uploaded by the admin and got a total of 583 likes and 17 comments and 5.7K views and counting. Posting this video has benefited me in terms of some questions raised in the comments section regarding whether my bird is a male or female. It has sparked me to investigate this matter to finally come to an accurate conclusion.
Barry Jones states “Any technological change has an equal capacity for the enhancement or degradation of life depending on how it is being used” (Andrew,Murphie,Potts Culture and Technology pg22). From my perspective I agree due to the fact that technology has indeed played a positive part in modern days. Examples include productive and effective marketing activities for businesses through the likes of social media. In terms of benefits from a life perspective it has done its part via websites whereby people can give in charity for a cause through online payments. An example is the Al Ihsan foundation who look after orphans or online petitions like change.org. They have the ability to attract a wide audience and can bring a sense of happiness to oneself and belonging. However technology has its negatives and examples include hackers who access confidential info belonging to an entity which may affect a business financially or even increase laziness within a nation. After all things such as online shopping or TaskRabbit isn’t really helping us physically. In addition Facebook can be used to spread hate via formed pages targeting islam.
In conclusion I do plan to engage more with technology and communities of my liking but not let it take over me.