Exploring and Updating

It's not hard to find information or current news about other states and countries, when you don't have cable or a newspaper sitting around. As long as you have the internet at your fingertips, you are able to search ANYTHING and see what's going on. It sounds very nosy, but that's what people are. We are always trying to see what's happening and if what we're doing is anything special, compared to other states and countries. There's a lot out there in the world to explore and having the internet makes it so much easier to research.

 Digital media has come a long way too. Now, we're able to have "Smart Phones" where we can have the internet at our fingertips AT ALL TIMES. That's incredible. Anybody with a smart phone can search for anything they want. This can be annoying to some, because that takes away from reading books or real articles in newspapers. As Postman wrote about, it seems as though we are creating this dystopian life, where all humankind can't stop to smell the roses because they are continuously checking their facebook statuses or updating their twitter status. Does the world need to know that your car broke down on the way to school? Or that you broke up with your girlfriend? Or even that you scored a 93% on your nursing exam? Are you really going to think, "Wow! What a great job they did. Good for them! Maybe I should try as hard as they did, so I can get a 93% too!" No, you're going to maybe read it and then move onto the next new status and see if it's anymore exciting. That may be different about Twitter with celebrities though. Seeing that Lady Gaga is getting ready to perform on stage is more exciting than seeing that your friend is drinking Dr. Pepper... Do we really need to know that? Way to go choosing Dr. Pepper! I may sound cynical, but sometimes it's easier to just keep some things to yourself. But Facebook and Twitter is definitely not about that. They're all about expressing yourself and saying whatever you want. And it probably is good for people to vent to something that they feel comfortable with. That's one reason they're there for you.