CMCstudent, 4/12

This is so very true. I have a MySpace account that I opened up in high school. Back them it was a site for me to connect with my friends. Once in a while I still go back and check my account. Instead of having requests from friends, I am constantly having requests from businesses, or event invites from promotional companies to events in the Orlando area. Just in the past few years’ internet sites like these have gone from direct interaction of person to person to interaction where a company can seek a person and the two can talk back and forth. My MySpace now has photographers, promoters, clothing designers, and my friends. It has become a social network, so much that I switched from MySpace to facebook about a year ago. Again the wonders of the internet and the “cult of the new”.

After taking all these CMC courses I have learned that news media can be very bias, and I do not even waste my time watching TV news anymore. The internet makes it so convenient to check out multiple websites and see their views in the same time one would do so waiting for the nightly news to come on and going through commercials. The internet also opens us to an outlet of news beside the U.S. tendencies to where one can see what the entire world is thinking about an event. Many times there are blogs or places to e-mail if you want to comment or have concern. This again really takes it from a one way media to a two way media in which both parties are interacting.