http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
During this past week's discussion about new media, I wanted to learn more about how media is influencing the world around us. We spoke of the negative aspects of media, like the promotion of loneliness and anti-social behavior. I understand how people can feel that way but I have always seen new media as a way to connect to more people. The people we see face to face is limited to our location, our resources, and our social skills but through the Internet we are able to travel the world, meet new people, and never have to change out of our pajamas.
Time magazine came out with an article two years ago this Christmas naming YOU as their coveted person of the year. I was very impressed with the optimistic perspective this article took in praising the world's use of the World Wide Web. We have innovated, created, and celebrated on the Internet whether it be through facebook, myspace, YouTube, google, wikipedia, or more. We have brought the world together and now we can share information in milliseconds about our lives, our interests, and our dislikes. We have taken advantage of New Media by shopping online, exploring new music on itunes, blogging about nonsense, and "befriending" people around the globe.
I am proud to be a user of the World's most powerful social tool and a member of the world's largest social experiment: the Internet.
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I like your observations about the internet. I saw the Time article that you are talking about and I think that it is interesting that anyone can be "important" in the world of the internet. Anyone can blog, email, facebook, or have a website regardless of age, education or financial situation (considering that public libraries often have free internet access.) I like that Time made the gutsy move to acknowledge this when there are so many other famous, influential people that they could have given the award to.
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