Wow! Class today was a little frightening. I was glad that we went over all sorts of new media coming out, but it is slightly overwhelming to grasp it all. I was just entering the blogging world and now there is so much other new media that I need to become part of.
I don't have a ton of free time to devote to new media so my problem now is deciding what sorts of media is worthwhile of my time. For example, Twitter might not be so bad, but I just don't want to spend tons of time following people on Twitter and seeing what they're up to. Also, there are few things that I dislike as much as reading electronic books. I would so much rather just have a hard copy of a book of newspaper in front of me, so I think the Amazon Kindle is definitely not necessary.
I would love to get an iPhone, but my concern there is that I would spend so much time on my phone and on the Internet that I would forget the real world around me. I think the future of media is slightly dangerous because people may be so tuned into media and all the different media outlets that they forget there is a real world going on around them. My time is too precious to spend massive amounts of time online doing things that are not necessarily worthwhile. I guess that as time progresses and I get more involved in the communications major I may figure out exactly what kind of media is beneficial and worth my time.
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