The Implications of Technological Media Towards the Social Life

Abstract

The development technologi information and comunication is what brings the most significant changes in social life. The purpose of this research is to determine the implications or effects caused by technology media on the social life of the community in the village of Aikmel, Aikmel District East Lombok Regency. Based on the results of the research, concluded that the wider of the reach of the community in obtaining information and expanding the association, so there are also shifts that occur and affect the character and culture of the community itself, such as ways of communicating where people prefer to communicate through the social media rather than to meet directly with the interlocutor, the people's lifestyles tend to be hedon or happy to show off their ownership both in real life and virtual life, ways of dressing are more likely to imitate the outside cultures.