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We’ve heard the cry for BIG cymbals loud and clear! As a result, we’ve included this Crash-Ride edition of our popular Raw Bell Dry Ride — but bigger and lighter! The Bash Ride performs equally well as a fantastic light ride or a great, BIG crash. A smaller bell design helps control the sound when you need a ride — or just bash away on it for the huge, stage-eating sound only a 24″ Crash can produce.

To illustrate the point of socially shaped technology, let’s turn to the cell phone. It was one of the biggest implementations of technology. The cell phone was the beginning of truly portable communicative technology, and led to both simplifications and complications. Children could reach their parents by phone at any time, and vice versa. Husbands and wives could send quick messages and reminders to each other throughout the day. Friends could plan nights out and help each other with homework. 

At the same time, people were crashing cars because of the attention given to their phones. The cell phone became so advanced that people relied on it not only for communication, but for taking pictures and videos, as a navigation system, and to receive work emails. Dependence on the devices continued to grow, and people started to talk to them, and worry about them as if they were animated, feeling beings.

Using this technology to our benefit was not a bad thing. Looking up facts in an instant, calling someone for help, and finding your way around a new city were incredible features of the cell phone. Becoming so dependent as to obsess over it while in a vehicle moving seventy-five miles an hour was a bad thing. I found commercials warning people not to use them in cars, usually because they were trying to send a message that really could wait until the car stopped:

Of course, it took a lot of work to get to that point. Researchers spent more than ten years to get SMS, or text messages, to send and deliver properly. Work began in 1978 in Europe, and the first message finally sent successfully in 1992. SMS was a store-and-forward system, so the message was sent from a handset device to a server, then dispatched to the intended recipient. The whole system was designed with business professionals in mind: the idea was messages wouldn’t need to be predetermined anymore, they could be composed at time of dispatch. It was a quicker, more efficient was to disseminate information.

Regardless of the intentions of the technology, young, non-professionals took it and ran. In 2000, almost one billion messages were sent in Finland, with a population of only five million. Friends used to them as a different way to chat that was similar to online Instant Messaging, but now portable.

Even at these first levels of development, cell phones and texting became so sought after all over the world that they became the basis of a new form of inequality. The devices were expensive, the plans were expensive, and people who didn’t have them, or couldn’t afford them, were somehow lesser for it. A complete class of people was excluded from the in-crowd. These were unintended consequences, but the continuation of cellular implementation meant those consequences were worth less than the benefits people believed to have gained.

In the article “Facebook’s Mobile Career,” written by Gerald Goggin, Goggin explores how the creation of the Facebook mobile application has impacted the lives of humans and the society we live in since its mobile application launch.  The article is organized into different subtopics that help us understand how Facebook has evolved over the course of its first decade.  The article starts out by giving a brief introduction to the mobile application and how it has connected people all around the globe together.  Then it shows a case study about how Facebook has impacted the lives of those living in Australia and how it has changed the way they communicate with one another.  One Australian even said, “Ya it’s Facebook before email now.” This can ring true for anything though.  You could send someone a text message asking them a question and they may never respond; yet moments later they may upload a status or something to that effect onto Facebook because that is their main way of communication.  The next section talks about how Facebook may have the potential to one day to replace the internet because it allows you to do to do the same things the internet does, like sharing photos, blogging, and playing online, virtual games.  The last two sections then go on to talk about how Facebook as integrated with other applications and gaming companies, like Instagram and Zynga, respectively and how by Facebook integrating its servers with theirs it has affected the membership.  The concepts they introduce are interactivity because of its human-machine interaction, simulation because of its virtual games you can play, and information because it allows you to search for a lot of things that you want to know. 

  This artifact shows how much Facebook impacts one’s social life.  People may blow off your text messages or emails just to update their Facebook status or upload a picture.  It controls a majority of people’s lives and how they interact with one another.

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The more I merge my life with computer technology, the less I need to sketch - but it's more of an emotional process than one of skill.