The media is such an interesting tool because we love it so much, especially our generation, yet when our computer crashes, this hatred out of nowhere suddenly appears. As a society, we have developed this need for technology, and this is shown during the three articles we discussed concerning : Wikipedia, YouTube, and powerpoint.
Starting with the first article, Wikipedia actually made me laugh out loud. Personally, I have actually changed the name of the country "Australia" to "Austria" and sat there and watched to see if anyone would change the name back. Indeed within a matter of 3-5 minutes, "Australia" was back. This made me feel a lot better about using this source that so many others have deemed unreliable. Have you ever changed anything on Wikipedia?
The second source was a YouTube article concerning its origin and also a story about a young girl's journey through life and how YouTube has impacted it. I honestly thought that YouTube was much older because of all the "hits" it gets every day, but it was "born" in 1995. I was simply 5 years old at this point, and I did not know about YouTube until high school (but even then I was still uniterested). I think I might post a video sometime! It would be fun. I think. I find it astonishing thinking about how many people are actually looking at videos as you have read this blog. As stating in class, you will always be behind. How does that make you feel? Being behind so much? This fact makes me want to watch YouTube videos infact. I use YouTube solely for music videos. What do you use them for?
The third article was not that interesting to be honest. I guess I was expecting this amazing, astonishing article because they seem to be getting better, but nonetheless, it was interesting. Thirty million powerpoints are created each day. Thirty million. Try to see how long it takes you to count to that number.
What do you think will be the next HUGE "thing" for technology. Facebook has already established its legendary mark on society, but I hear Twitter is quite exciting. So the question posed is: Is technology a curse or a blessing? Why?
:)
I agree with you when you say that people freak out once there computers crash. I know for me even when my internet is slow i start to get anxious and impatient. I too enjoyed both of the articles on wikipedia and youtube. I actually was surprised to see that Youtube had been around since 1995, i thought it was a lot newer.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to the next huge thing for technology i think it will stay along the lines of facebook and Twitter, social networking and blogging is very big right now and i think that trend will stay big for awhile, then after that who knows! I actually dont like Twitter as much as i enjoy facebook, i do like that people update it more but i like the commenting and pictures and othe aspects of facebook better.