Week 9- Neo luddite

d) Describe the daily frustrations of a fictional neo-luddite at university now in the UK.



" Dear Diary,



Oh dear lord what a day!!I woke up this morning and my alarm hadnt gone off it had ran out of blooming batteries. Got up and got changed and went off to my lecture apparently an email had been sent out this morning and seeing as I don't have a laptop in my room nor do I check my emails account everyday (I still don't know how to access it properly),I was none the wiser so off I went to my lecture to eventually work out after half an hour that it was cancelled as nobody turned up.All you need at nine o'clock in the morning!



Later on I went to a seminar and Francesca said she would of given me a text message if I had a phone and i said text message whats that?The look on her face!It was like someone had slapped her round the face with a wet fish. I just don't see the need if i am honest and i wouldn't have a clue on how to work it if i had a phone anyway. Francesca then suggested i joined Facebook as everybody is on it.Praise the lord our tutor came in just at the right time.Facebook?what is that?



Having just been set work in the seminar which is due in for tomorrow, I went straight to the library as i needed to use the internet. After an hour of really struggling to find the website and sources i was meant to, I then asked the I.T man to help and he basically gave me a tutorial (just what he needed at the end of long day). In the end it took me ages to understand what I was doing with the whole tasks we had been set and now I am in bed at mid night what an annoying day!! "

This is just a small example of what being a neo luddite may be like if they were trying to survive without the new media world.