"My Media, Myself"

Todays society is obsessed with new media. Everyday we are surrounded or use technology. This technology has gotten to a point that it keeps people connect basically at all times. This revolution started with the cell phone and the internet. When the cell phone came out it was no longer a problem trying to reach people when they were not home. Now we can call someone, and no moatter where they are, as long as they have service they can speak to you. The internet made this even more accesible. There are websites that can reunite us with old freinds and also help us meet new ones. There are also programs like Instant messaging that keep people in touch. I personally use the internet to get most of my information. I do watch some T.V but i do not watch the news. When i find out about new important things it usually happens on facebook. I usually go on and i see that most people have a statment on their status about whatever the pressing matter of the day is. For example when Michael Jackson died i did not find out from the news or the radio, i was on facebook and i realized that many people had R.I.P Jacko. At first I didnt know what this meant but as i saw more and more statuses i realized that Michael Jackson had died. In a way this is great because it makes information and people extreamly accesible and easy, but at the same time i feel this is a problem because to many people are becoming lazier and lazier because things are all at our fingertips. If a person were to choose to stay home all day they could probably get away with it. Today we can pay bills online, take classses online, even work at home from your computer. If technology continues to progress i am scared for the ext generation that grows up not knowing how to do things for themselves, rather they rely on a computer or another product of technology. In a way i am scared that computers will take over. Not in the sence of the Terminator but in the sence that it consumes our lives and we no longer know how to interact with real people.