Week 8: Effects of New Media in our lives...

New media has changed our lives in many ways. It became a part of our daily lives actually, it became a routine. Internet is very important, yes it is really important. It helps us to connect with our friends and loved ones. It also became a reliable source of everything. In just one click on the internet, you can search what you want. We can easily communicate with other people. As a teenager, internet really became a part of my life. I can't survive without internet unless I have lots hobbies that can replace the internet. Internet was my friend ever since we had an access to it. I spend most of my time in front of my laptop and just surf the net and talk to my friends in cyber space. I use internet to express what I really feel. Internet makes me happy... really happy.

It wasn’t so long ago that newer technologies allowed for people to cover huge areas of distance using just their voice over a wire. Now you can transmit any number of documents, photos, videos, sounds and text from a computer at home or a phone in your pocket. Media is even evolving to the point where you can create and edit on the device in your hand. People on the whole now have the technology to create readily at their disposal. Society is fully able to create any kind of content that they want and these new skills required to do so are ingrained in children from a young age. Automated processes and the ranges of connectivity in the most basic of devices are far more advanced than the devices of the past. What once required planning, methodology, and time to actualize can now be replicated and shared further than ever in less time. Children learn these new age skills as an aspect of their lives much like oral language. They learn by doing without even realizing it. For me, there are good and bad effects of new media. Good effect is that, new media exposes me to different things that I don't know. It helps me understand things well. And the bad effect is that the existence of pornographic materials, hacking and debugging. Some children in the young age will be expose with these kinds of stuff that should not be.